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Karpowership aims to provide 15% of Senegal’s power
POLAND
KARPOWERSHIP’S 235MW oating power plant Ayşegül Sultan will be able to meet 15% of Senegal’s needs when it comes online in October.
e vessel this week le Turkey for Senegal, Karpowership parent company Karadeniz Hold- ing said, and will help the African country meet its power needs.
“We plan to use liquid fuel as bridging fuel in the rst six months. At the end of the rst six months, we will start to produce electricity from LNG on our ship. us Ayşegül Sultan will be the rst project to generate electricity from LNG in Africa,” said Karpowership Trade Group chair Zeynep Harezi.
e company is also converting its oating power plant in Mozambique to LNG. It is also scheduled to start operations in 2020.
In August, Karpowership and Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) revealed their nal plans to develop the 48MW oating LNG-to-power pro- ject in Mozambique under the brand KARMOL.
eprojectwouldinvolvejointlyowningand operating an FSRU and the Irem Sultan Power- ship. In a world rst, the FSRU would deliver regasi ed LNG to the powership in order to pro- duce electricity.
Karpowership currently operates 22 float- ing power plants in 10 countries and has invested $5bn in its pioneering and innovative technology.
Harezi said that its vessels provided power quickly and reliably, stressing that the company’s vessels could all be converted from heavy fuel oil (FHO), which is highly polluting, to cleaner natural gas.
She said that this had already happened at its 480MW vessel in Indonesia and would soon take place in Ghana.
e Istanbul-based company currently sup- plies 26% of the electricity produced in Ghana, 10% in Mozambique, 80% in the Gambia and Sierra Leone, and 10% in Sudan.
Harezi also said that it was constructing energy vessels with capacities of up to 2,000 MW, while 3,000MW ships were in the planning stage.
“In the next ve years, we plan to add 20 more energy ships with a total capacity of 5,000 MW to our eet,”shesaid.
Harezi said the company was in the process of negotiating and bidding with 15 other countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.™
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