Hydropower plant for South Sulawesi

MAKASSAR, South Sulawesi: Enrekang regency administration, South Sulawesi, said on Tuesday it would build a 100-megawatt hydropower plant to help address the power crisis in the regency and in the province.

Enrekang Regent M. Iqbal Mustafa said that the hydropower plant would be built in Anggareja village in cooperation with a Chinese firm, at an investment cost of US$150 million.

"It will be able to meet demand from the regency and other regions in the province that currently suffer from a shortage of power supplies," he said. --Antara