The announcement was made by SNEL’s managing director, Prof. Dr. Ir. Teddy Lwamba, who indicated that the power ship should be delivered to the Democratic Republic of Congo within three weeks. The stated objective is to quickly have additional capacity that can be injected into the national power grid.
According to information communicated by SNEL, this solution aims to meet the capital’s growing electricity needs, as it faces significant demand. The production carried out in Matadi should thus make it possible to strengthen the available supply and, ultimately, improve service to customers in Kinshasa.
Diversifying production sources
For SNEL, the use of this technology is part of an approach to diversify the energy mix. Historically heavily dependent on hydropower, the company is also exploring thermal solutions and other production capacities in order to respond more quickly to the grid’s needs.
The partnership with Karpowership is based on the principle of a floating power plant capable of producing energy near connection infrastructure. The Turkish company, present in several markets around the world, operates a fleet of power ships with a cumulative capacity of several thousand megawatts.
The implementation of the project should notably make it possible to determine the technical arrangements for connection to the grid and the operating conditions of this new capacity. Karpowership for its part affirms its willingness to accelerate the process to allow the first operational stages in the coming months.
With these additional 135 MW envisaged in Matadi, SNEL is thus seeking to rapidly increase its production capacities and to support Kinshasa’s electricity supply, in a context marked by growing energy demand.
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