"Celec terminates contract with CWE for unfinished works in Toachi Pilatón" – March 23, 2022

... The Chinese company Water & Electric-CWE was declared a non-compliant contractor for several problems in the civil works of the Toachi Pilatón hydroelectric project... The state holding company Corporación Eléctrica de Ecuador (Celec) declared the "unilateral termination of the contract" that it had maintained for 12 years with the Chinese company Water & Electric-CWE for the civil works of the Toachi Pilatón hydroelectric plant... The Hidrotoapi Business Unit, which manages the project, identified flaws in the civil works of the hydroelectric project developed by Water & Electric-CWE. Among them are the presence of fissures, settlements, and functionality problems... The contractor CWE did not present arguments, materials, inputs, schedules, or methodologies to correct the breaches in the construction of the project... CWE also did not propose solutions on the cleaning of hazardous waste generated in the construction process... Breaches in the Environmental Management Plan... The Comptroller's Office also warned of these breaches of CWE...