General Electric Co. has won a $2.2 billion contract to provide turbines for six power plants in Algeria, state energy giant Sonatrach announced on Sunday. \"GE has won the contract to provide the turbines with a total capacity of 8,400 megawatts for a sum of $2.2 billion dollars,\" Sonatrach chief Nourredine Bouterfa told state radio. Algeria plans to build six new power plants with capacities of between 1,200 and 1,600 megawatts each by 2017.