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Based on your selections we suggest that you familiarize yourself with our range of gas engines. Once we have a deeper understanding of your power plant needs we can further define which specific engine model is most suitable for your power plant project.
The main products in our gas engine range are presented here:
Wärtsilä 34SG (ca 10MW unit) - agility and flexibility combined with high efficiency over the whole load range and in any operating profile makes this plant excellent for both flexible baseload and peak load, and supporting the grid with a variety of ancillary services.
Wärtsilä 31SG (ca 11 MW unit) - this is the newest and most efficient gas engine we offer. Wärtsilä 31SG takes efficiency to a new level for internal combustion engines.
Wärtsilä 50SG (ca 18MW unit) - High efficiency in a small footprint combined with high reliability and flexibility makes this solution perfect for flexible baseload applications including daily starts and stops, also providing ancillary services like regulation up&down and tertiary reserves.
The Kipevu II project is owned by the special-purpose company Tsavo Power Company Limited of Kenya, and the power plant is operated by Wärtsilä Operations as a contractor for Tsavo Power Company LTD.
Wärtsilä solution
Kipevu II consists of seven Wärtsilä 38 generating sets. Wärtsilä began construction immediately after financial closing in August 2000, and commercial operation was started on 4th September 2001, exactly on schedule.
One of the keys to the successful Kipevu II project was fast equipment delivery from Finland and the Netherlands. Today the Kipevu II project is KPLC’s lowest-cost energy producer among all their thermal projects. Wärtsilä showed their capabilities in total energy concepts by developing an IPP project without government guarantees in the most cost-effective way for the investors with KPLC as the off-taker.
In November 2009, Wärtsilä was awarded a turnkey contract for a 117 MW thermal power plant to be located opposite Kipevu II. The order was placed by Kenya Electricity Generating Company Limited (KenGen), the leading power generation company in Kenya. Kipevu III, consisting of seven W18V46 engines, was successfully handed over to KenGen in March 2011.
| Name: | Kipevu II | Kipevu III |
| Type: | Oil power plant | Oil power plant |
| Location: | Mombasa, Kenya | Mombasa, Kenya |
| Owner: | Tsavo Power Company, Kenya | Kenya Electricity Generating Company Limited (KenGen) |
| Delivered: | 2001 | 2011 |
| Engines: | 7 x Wärtsilä 18V38 | 7 x Wärtsilä 18V46 |
| Total electrical output: | 74.5 MW | 117 MW |
Wärtsilä offers a wide range of flexible engine power plant solutions that can provide baseload availability or support an optimised transition to renewable energy.
Wärtsilä’s wide range of project service options offer an unbeatable advantage to any power plant project. With 30 years of experience from projects in more than 90 countries, we can prove that our project management, engineering, procurement, installation and construction, logistics and commissioning services are of the highest quality and lowest risk.
An operation & maintenance solution with Wärtsilä means entering into a partnership, agreeing on and working towards shared productivity and profitability goals for your company.
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