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Daewoo Engineering & Construction (Daewoo E&C) has been awarded the largest-ever power plant order from Morocco.

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South Korea’s Daewoo E&C said Monday it had signed the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Safi Independent Power Project worth about 1.9 trillion won ($1.7 billion) in Morocco on August 9 (local time).  
 The project is the largest ever that the company has thus far secured overseas. 

Safi Independent Power Project is a private financing project which is to build 1,320 MW coal-fired electrical power plant and additional facilities 15 kilometers off the coast of Safi, Morocco.

The company solely clinched the EPC deal from a private partner Safi Energy Company and will work on it for 46 months after the groundbreaking. 

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The company is the first Korean builder to enter into Morocco for the construction of Dongbu Daewoo Electronics (formerly Daewoo Electronics) and Daewoo Motor’s plants in Morocco in 1998. Since its re-entry in 2010, Daewoo E&C has struck a total of three large-scale plant projects including the latest deal, following Jorf Lasfar’s coal-fired electrical power plant ($1.2 billion) and Jorf Lasfar’s P1&P3 project for ODI fertilizer plant ($328 million).



Cumulative orders won by the builder from Morocco amounted to $3.4 billion, representing 89 percent of orders worth $3.9 billion clinched by the nation’s builders from Morocco.