Empower is currently building a 36MW HFO-fired generation plant for SOMELEC, the Mauritanian national electricity company, under an EPC turn-key contract.
The plant is being assembled in an industrial area approximately 10 km south west of the capital Nouakchott and will increase SOMELEC’s installed capacity in Nouakchott by around 50%.
This will enable the utility to decommission expensive emergency diesel generators and supply a more affordable and reliable power supply to the country.
generator-sets have been installed on their foundations.
Prime Minister laying the first stone of 36MW power plant.
Specification
The Empower plant consisting of 3 x 12MW modular blocks, each comprising three 4MW medium speed engines from MAN Diesel of Germany. The plant will include a tank farm that can store 8,000 tons of fuel and will connect into a new 33kV substation built by SOMELEC.
The plant will run on HFO (Heavy Fuel Oil), the most affordable fuel currently available in Mauritania.
Ground breaking
On Wednesday 26th May 2010 the Prime Minister of Mauritania, Mr Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf, together with Mr Luka Buljan, Empower CEO, laid the first brick during the Ceremony to mark the beginning of construction of the new Empower Generating Plant for Nouakchott.
Google Earth
You can view the site in Google Earth, either by pasting in the following co-ordinates:
18 02 47.22 N 16 01 13.14 W
Or by clicking here to download a .kmz location file
(Download and double click the .kmz file to open and view in the Google Earth application. Requires prior installation of Google Earth.)
