Dec 11 Michel Cousins

Siemens power contracts worth €700 million

By Libya Herald reporter. GECOL and Siemens sign contract for new Tripoli and Misrata power stations last week (Photo: PC media office)Tunis, 11 Decem...

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Tawerghan protestors demand right to return home as Serraj meets deputy Tawergha council leader
Dec 9 Michel Cousins

Tawerghan protestors demand right to return home as Serraj meets deputy Tawergha council leader

By Libya Herald reporter.Tunis, 9 December 2017:Dozens of exiled Tawerghans demonstrated in Tripoli’s Falah district today protesting over their squal...

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Merkel calls on Serraj to ensure greater humanitarian assistance in detention centres
Dec 8 Michel Cousins

Merkel calls on Serraj to ensure greater humanitarian assistance in detention centres

By Jamie Prentis.Tunis, 8 December 2017:German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on the Presidency Council (PC) to allow humanitarian organisations...

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Benghazi's Sabri gets new electricity substation
Nov 28 Nigel Ash

Benghazi's Sabri gets new electricity substation

By Libya Herald reporters.Benghazi, 28 November 2017:GECOL engineers have completed work on a new electricity substation in Benghazi’s war-ravaged Ssb...

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Algeria's Sonelgaz discusses electricity exports with GECOL
Nov 23 Sami Zaptia

Algeria's Sonelgaz discusses electricity exports with GECOL

By Sami Zaptia.London, 23 November 2017:Algeria's state electricity and gas company, Sonelgaz, and Libya's General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL...

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Nov 21 Sami Zaptia

Tripoli Chamber holds meeting on developing renewables in Libya

By Sami Zaptia.Solar panels installed at Abu Sleem hospital by the UNDP (Photo: UNDP).London, 21 November 2017:The Tripoli Chamber of Commerce held a...

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BREAKING: Turkish firm pulls 93 engineers out of kidnap-hit Obari power station
Nov 9 Nigel Ash

BREAKING: Turkish firm pulls 93 engineers out of kidnap-hit Obari power station

By Libya Herald reporters.Benghazi, 9 November 2017:The Turkish firm building Obari power station has this afternoon flown 93 of its staff out of Liby...

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Nov 3 Nigel Ash

UPDATE: Armed men seize three Turks and a German near Obari power station

By Libya Herald reporters. Obari power station's fourth turbine being tested last month (Photo GECOL)Tunis, 3 November 2017:An armed gang has this mor...

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Serraj visits Obari's new power station and hospital
Oct 21 Nigel Ash

Serraj visits Obari's new power station and hospital

By Libya Herald reporters.Tunis, 21 October 2017:Presidency Council (PC) head Faiez Serraj inspected Obari’s new Turkish-built 640MW power station tod...

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Tripoli government signs contract Greece’s METKA for $380M Tobruk power station
Sep 27 Michel Cousins

Tripoli government signs contract Greece’s METKA for $380M Tobruk power station

By Libya Herald reporter. Signing in Tripoli of the contract between GECOL and METKA for the new Tobruk power station (Photo: GECOL)Tunis, 27 Septembe...

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