El Taref () is a city in
Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...
. It is the capital of
El Taref Province.
El Kala is a port town near El Taref. El Taref is 700 kilometers east of
Algiers
Algiers is the capital city of Algeria as well as the capital of the Algiers Province; it extends over many Communes of Algeria, communes without having its own separate governing body. With 2,988,145 residents in 2008Census 14 April 2008: Offi ...
. In 1998, it had a population of around 20,300.
General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) was an American Multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the New York (state), state of New York and headquartered in Boston.
Over the year ...
and
Iberdrola
Iberdrola, S.A. () is a Spanish multinational electric utility company based in Bilbao, Spain. It has around 40,000 employees and serves around 30 million customers.
Subsidiary, Subsidiaries include ScottishPower (United Kingdom), Ava ...
are building a power station in El Taref, beginning in mid-2008, a project which will increase Algeria's
energy capacity by 18%.
[''Algerian power station construction attributed to GE-Iberdrola'', Algerie Presse Service, June 11, 2008, internet article.]
References
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Communes of El Taref Province
Province seats of Algeria
El Taref Province