MAN Energy Solutions has supplied generation technology to expand several power plants in Chad, Niger and Burkina Faso.
MAN Energy will supply 4 × 18V32/40 CD engines to a new power plant in Chad. The plant is being built north of the capital, N’Djamena, and provides a total of 35MW to the national grid.
“Currently, just 10% of Chadians have access to electricity. We are proud that we can now make a significant contribution to the electrification of the country with our engines in this new plant,” said Ghassan Saab, Head of Power, MEA Region at MAN Energy Solutions.
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The engines and auxiliary equipment for the Chad plant will need to be transported more than 1,800 kilometres by truck from the port city of Douala in Cameroon, which according to MAN Energy, will prove a particularly challenging task.
In Niger, MAN Energy Solutions is expanding a power plant near the national capital, Niamey. Currently, 4 × MAN 18V48/60TS engines are in operation on-site, with another engine of the same type to be delivered, adding 20MW to the plant’s capacity, bringing it to a total of more than 100MW.
“After this expansion, the Niamey power plant alone will provide over 45% of Niger’s generation capacity,” said Saab. “However, Niger is still one of the countries in Africa with the lowest electrification rate and we are in talks with the country’s government to increase it significantly over the next few years,” added Saab.
Additionally, MAN engineers recently commissioned 3 × MAN 18V51/60TS engines for a power plant expansion in Burkina Faso. The plant in Kossodo, a suburb of main city, Ouagadougou, will provide 55MW of electrical power to the national grid, increasing the country’s generation capacity by nearly 20%.
MAN Energy Solutions has subsequently handed the plant over to national utility, SONABEL.
“SONABEL has relied on power plant engines from MAN Energy Solutions since 1978. In total, we have already supplied generation technology for five power plants that are still in operation across the country today,” said Saab. “Following the successful expansion of the power plant in Kossodo, almost 50% of Burkina Faso’s installed capacity is now based on MAN technology.”
