Power Plant in Senegal
Cap des Biches
Thermal
HFO
Africa
86 MW
Cap des Biches is an 86 MW thermal generation facility developed and constructed by ContourGlobal in two phases—53 MW that began generating electricity in April 2016 after only 14 months of construction, and a second phase consisting of 33 MW that broke ground in January 2016 and produced first electricity already in September 2016.
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The new Cap des Biches power plant was developed by ContourGlobal and constructed in two phases under an EPC contract with Wartsila, the global leader in lifecycle for marine and energy market under an EPC contract, in 14 months and 9 months, respectively, without delay. The plant consists of five Wärtsilä 18V46 combustion engines equipped with a highly efficient “Flexicycle” system, which uses waste heat to power a steam turbine. This state-of-the-art technology enables Cap des Biches to provide the lowest cost energy in Senegal, and the facility can easily be converted to burn natural gas, providing the Senegalese with valuable fuel flexibility.
At present, the Government of Senegal, the national grid operator – SENELEC – and the major oil and Gas companies, , co-operate and invest heavily in bringing LNG / natural gas to the port of Dakar and enable the power producers to use gas, instead of HFO, to produce energy. CG is currently developing a feasibility study for the conversion of CdB to dual fuel to allow the use of natural gas as main fuel and it is actively working with its ; CG expects this project to become operational by Q3 2026. The conversion project will allow the plant to use natural gas, which will result to a reduction of CO2 emissions by 30% – from 620 to 430 kgCO2/MWh, resulting in substantially lower carbon footprint. The Project is part of the Senegalese government’s broader ambition to modernize and transform the electricity industry towards low-carbon fuels.
The Cap des Biches power plant is designed to operate day and night. It has a significant share in Senegal’s energy sector, as well as is a major contributor to the economic growth. It is one of the few advanced power plants in country and is known for its reliability of operation.
Enabling Continuous Learning: Cap des Biches
At ContourGlobal Cap des Biches we expect, embrace and enable excellence in Power Plant operation; we compel ourselves and our colleagues to it. Often excellence sounds as a tired and worn out buzzword: to learn the ContourGlobal Cap de Biches way.
Cap des Biches (CdB) is an 86 MW combined cycle facility consisting five HFO fired diesel engines and a steam turbine, located on the Atlantic coast in proximity to Dakar. This Power Plant is constructed under a third-party EPC contract, financed by DFC and IFC.
At CdB we expect to find in each colleague a teacher and learning partner, as to achieve excellence we need hard work; to strive for excellence in our business and lives, we made of CdB our permanent learning facility, in an incessant quest for learning.
The first lesson that we understood is that to learn we need to fail, and by failing we accumulate precious experiences. To handle failure, we need to recognize the failure you need humility, to learn from failure, we still need this virtue. In front of a huge scope as running a Power Plant we feel annihilated, but we own the key of understanding: humility. We start our days knowing that we will fail but also that when we do, we will learn.
Our flexicylce®, recovering energy from exhaust gas, is a complicate and rare solution but we mastered it. It took mistakes and humility to understand how to operate it at the top of its possibilities, increasing efficiency and heat rate.
We seek excellence by always looking for new and innovative ways to reduce our environmental impact: we developed an operation strategy to increase the efficiency of the combined cycle condenser, and we improved the monitoring of our engine performance to reduce the fuel consumptions. We also dedicate extreme care to the sludge treatment to save chemical product and reduce our environmental footprint.
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