Singapore's state investor Temasek has chosen nine firms including Marubeni and HongKong Electric as bidders for Tuas Power, which could raise $2 billion as part of the city-state's energy liberalisation. The sale of Tuas will be the first of three power generators that Temasek Holdings hopes to sell by June 2009, which analysts say will offer potential investors a low-risk route to steady profits.
Sources close to the deal named six bidders: Japan's Marubeni, Li Ka-shing's Hongkong Electric, India's Reliance Energy, a joint venture of Macquarie, and India's GMR Infrastructure, Malaysia's Tanjong and Huaneng Power.
A third banking source advising one of the bidders said that there could be nine shortlisted firms in total, including the One Energy JV owned by Hong Kong's CLP Holdings and Japan's Mitsubishi, Bahrain-based investment bank Arcapita and Spain's Union Fenosa.
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