84 MW (63+21) EBS DDP2 POWER PL ANT PAR AMARIBO, SURINAME Commissioned 2014/20162 The Government-owned utility N.V. Energiebedrijven Suriname (EBS) needed to significantly increase its baseload power generation capacity to handle increasing demand in the Suriname capital, Paramaribo. In 2012, Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor A/S (BWSC) won an international tender for a power plant in the Het Vertrouwen region on the outskirts of the city. Due to the time required to stabilise the ground conditions at the original site, the client, EBS, decided to build part of the tendered plant adjacent to its existing EPAR Plant Plant in the centre of Paramaribo, to utilise existing infrastructure for fuel deliveries and electricity exports to the city grid, and to improve the

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