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ESB INTERNATIONAL HAS announced two major achievements: winning its first contract in Turkey and completing a major stage in the energy project it is managing in Tanzania.
The official switching on of a new 132kV submarine interconnector from Tanzania to Zanzibar Island is taking place today.
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore, who is Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, is currently on a trade mission to Turkey and will be present at an event in Istanbul today where the details of the €30 million, six-year contract will be unveiled.
The contract is being undertaken in partnership with investment company UNIT and will see ESB International operate and maintain the Yeni Elektrik Power Station, located South West of Istanbul, Turkey. ESB International will also provide technical and engineering support to the plant.
ESB International and UNIT have formed a 50/50 joint venture company, UNES, to manage the contract for the plant.
Major player
The Tánaiste described ESB International as a “major player on the global stage” and said it is clear that ESBI has the skills to help Turkey to meet its fast-increasing energy demands.
John McSweeney, Head of Innovation at ESB said they believe the projects will impact positively on people’s lives in both Tanzania and Turkey. “The Turkish power plant is capable of generating up to 3 per cent of electricity consumption in Turkey and the expansion of the electricity infrastructure in Tanzania will transform people’s lives and offer new generations a bright future as it did in Ireland in the 1950′s,” he said.
In 2008, ESB International won an international competitive tender worth $25 million to provide energy sector consultancy services to the Millennium Challenge Account Tanzania (MCA-T) Energy Project.
The $200 million project is wholly funded by the US Government through MCA-T. It aims to ensure the long-term development of power transmission and distribution networks in Tanzania, where only 15 per cent of the population is connected to the national grid.
The company is also providing consultancy services for rural electrification schemes in seven regions across Tanzania.
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Hmmm Journal she doesn’t even speak one word and appears on screen for all of one second in Planes, Train and Automobiles !
Yes, I rather think the headline should be “Actress Diana Douglas of Kirk Douglas’s first wife fame…”
An article on this but nothing on Nicholas Winton passing away earlier in the week??
Yeah, because risking your life to single handedly save the lives of 669 Jewish children from certain death and then being so humble about it that your wife only discovers about it in a scrapbook in the attic nearly 50 years later doesn’t warrant mention.
Journal really scraping the barrel for stories. Tine to delete app maybe
Married three times – to her second husband for thirty six years, still married to her third husband when she died, yet still goes by her famous first husbands surname! – way to inflict an inferiority complex!!!!!
What character did she play in trains planes?
She played Steve Martin’s mother or mother in law. You see her for a micro second at the end.
No wonder i cant picture her in it.
A pilot .
Gobble gobble!
Is the headline a joke
I thought michel Douglas was 92
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