Good News from Mon, 15 February, 2010:

Pöyry engineers an extensive hydropower project in Sri Lanka

Pöyry, a global engineering and consulting company headquartered in Vantaa, Finland, has been awarded an extensive hydropower plant engineering contract for Sri Lanka. The 6.1 million euro contract includes feasibility studies, tender design, detail-design and construction supervision of the Uma Oya hydropower project.

The project comprises two dams and over 15 kilometres of water conveyance tunnels, a 700 metre deep shaft and an underground powerhouse with two Pelton turbines of installed capacity of 150 megawatts. Pöyry will begin project research immediately and the design phase will be completed in 2011. The construction will start in early 2011, and the power station will be opened in early 2016.

The construction of the hydropower plant and the dams is part of a wider Uma Oya Multipurpose Development Project by the Ministry of Irrigation of Sri Lanka. The project combines hydropower and irrigation sustainably by diverting water from the wet central highlands into the dryer southern part of Sri Lanka for irrigation and household use while using the available head of over 700 metres for energy generation.

Pöyry has long-term experience of dams, hydropower schemes and irrigation works in Sri Lanka. During the past 30 years Pöyry has made a major contribution to development of hydropower in Sri Lanka by engineering four major hydropower schemes.

Pöyry employs 7000 experts in 50 countries worldwide. The company’s net sales in 2009 were 674 million euros.

www.poyry.com

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