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.
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.
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.
