TRIPOLI, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Libya's state-owned General Electricity Company on Wednesday signed a 370-million-USD contract with Greece's METKA to build a power plant in the eastern Libyan city Tobruk.
The Libyan General Electricity Company said that the power plant would consist of four units, producing a total output of about 740MW.
The company confirmed that the project will take 15 months to complete, and that the first generating unit will start functioning in September 2018.
The signing of the contract was attended by the Libyan Foreign Minister, Mohamed Sayala, and Secretary General for International Economic Relations of the Greece's Foreign Ministry, Giorgos Tsipras, as well as officials of both companies.
Libyan cities suffer daily power blackouts that last for as long as eight hours a day, according to the Libyan Electricity Company.
