When U.S. Army engineers entered the plant on April 14, 2003, damage from fighting was minor, but dilapidation was extreme (ENR 4/21/03 p. 12). Daura has four 160-MW thermal units. Two are Italian and two are German. It also has four 37-MW French natural gas turbines. Most were down when work began, so it was difficult to assess their conditions. When they were taken apart, "damage was much worse than expected," Canavan says.
The boilers of the German units were in an arrested rehab begun in September 2002. Germanys Siemens had started work under the United Nations Development Program but stopped as war loomed. Siemens also had a signed but unfunded contract to rehabilitate the turbines and replace the distributed control system.