Croatian state-owned power utility group HEP said on Tuesday Japan's Marubeni
has been named the preferred bidderfor the construction and management of the
Plomin C thermal power plant (TPP).
HEP said in a statement it completed
the second phase of the procedure for selecting a strategic partner on the
project by ranking the three bidders which submitted their offers in late
April.
The second-ranked bidder is the Abeins and Daewoo Consortium and
the third-ranked one is Edison, HEP said.
The strategic partner will
design, engineer, finance, build, operate and maintain the planned 800 million
euro ($1.05 billion)500 megawatt coal-fired Plomin C power station.
The
procedure will be continued in a form of negotiations with the preferred bidder.
HEP aims to complete these talks by the end of this year and prepare the
relevant contracts to be signed in early 2015.
HEP said earlier the
construction of Plomin C is expected to get underway next year with 2019
targeted for its commercial launch.
HEP group (
www.hep.hr) owns and
operates over 4,000 megawatts (MW) of installed generation capacity and 974 MW
of heat production capacity, including 25 hydroelectric plants and eight thermal
power plants fired by oil, natural gas or coal.