AFRICA we took the title of being the only U . S . firm to participate in the privatization , and then as part of a consortium , to operate a power plant in Nigeria . When we took the plant operations over it was generating just 160-megawatts ; today it is producing 600-megawatts and by the end of the year capacity is expected to reach almost 1,000 megawatts ,” says Hinks . And Symbion shows no sign of slowing down ; it was recently awarded a contract in Rwanda to produce electricity from methane gas found at the bottom of Lake Kivu . The company has also taken on a large project in southern Tanzania to build a transmission line

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Symbion CEO , Paul Hinks and then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tour the Symbion Power Plant in 2011 .

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