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Tribunal backs Centum consortium's Sh170b coal power plant tender win

A worker walks at a power plant of an oil processing facility. Centum is gearing up to build a coal power plant in Lamu County.

NAIROBI: Centum Investment will start building a coal power plant after a challenge for the award of the tender by a rival bidder was rejected by a tribunal. Centum, which won the tender to build the 1,000 megawatt plant in the coastal county of Lamu last September, entered a consortium with Gulf Energy to present the winning bid.

However, the award of the tender was challenged by a rival consortium, HCIG-Liketh, before a Government committee.

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