Alstom Lands EUR500m Brazil Hydro Contract

French engineer Alstom’s Alstom Hydro unit has won a contract valued at approximately EUR500m to supply turbines and generating equipment to the Santo Antonio hydroelectric project in Brazil’s Amazon region. A consortium led by Odebrecht, which won a government auction in 2007, is building the 3,150MW facility. Santo Antonio, the first of two large facilities on the Rio Madeira river, should be complete in 2012, at a cost of more than BRL12bn.