本周，津巴布韦总统在接受采访时透露：电建+GE 联合体最终赢得40亿美元的Batoka水电站项目。

这一结果，与【走出去情报】两周前在 电建 葛洲坝 三峡的津巴布韦之争 中的预测一致。

上个月，由津巴布韦和赞比亚共同组建的赞比西河管理局宣布：来自美、意、中三家公司/联合体进入Batoka 水电站竞标人短名单。

三家公司/联合体分别是：

1. 电建国际 + GE

2. 三峡集团（中水对外）+ 葛洲坝

3. 意大利 Salini Impreglio

【走出去情报】当时对三家公司/联合体的竞争格局进行了详细分析，并预测 电建 + GE 联合体胜算最高。而最终结果，不出所料！

Batoka水电站项目将采用BOT 模式，目前已经完成了工程可行性研究和环境影响评估。如果进展顺利，项目将于9月份动工。

相关英文报道：

Zimbabwe and Zambia chose General Electric and the Power Construction Corpoartion of China to build a $4bn hydropower project straddling their border, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa said.

The 2 400-megawatt Batoka Gorge plant has been planned for years by the two southern African nations, both of which are struggling with electricity shortagesafter a drought curbed hydropower output. General Electric and Power China are in a consortium that was shortlisted in February to build the facility.

“Zambia and Zimbabwe have agreed on this project. We have all agreed that we give it to GE - China Power and GE together,” Mnangagwa said in an interview Wednesday in Maputo, Mozambique’s capital, where he was attending a conference. “It’s critical that we move fast on that front because it’s necessary that as we industrialise that we need electricity.”

While the project will address electricity shortages, it’s on the same river - the Zambezi - that has left the Kariba hydropower dam downstream too empty to function at full capacity.

GE said in an emailed response to questions that the Zambezi River Authority, which manages power plants on the river, had said it would appoint a final developer for the project by September. As part of the consortium, GE would have a “material role in the development and execution of the project,” including the design and supply of hydropower technologies, it said.

Zambian Energy Minister Matthew Nkhuwa said he wasn’t available to comment. The project will be based on a build-operate-transfer financing model and won’t put any fiscal strain on the two nations’ governments, Nkhuwa said in February.

The $4bn cost of the project includes amounts for civil works, construction and power turbines, among other things, GE said on Thursday. The African Development Bank said in September it has begun mobilising funds for the plant.

Other bidders that had been shortlisted included Salini Impregilo SpA of Italy and a joint venture comprising China Three Gorges Corp., China International Water & Electric Corp. and China Gezhouba Group Co., according to Nkhuwa.