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Thursday, June 2, 2016
Wärtsilä was tagged to supply a 67-MW Smart Power Generation plant for Mauritius’ St Louis Power Station. The order includes four Wärtsilä 46 engines running on heavy fuel oil. The equipment will be delivered in late-2016, and the plant is scheduled to be operational by September 2017.
Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor A/S (BWSC) is the EPC contractor for this project for which Wärtsilä will deliver the engines, equipment and engineering.
To meet Mauritius’ rising demand the retired diesel generating sets at the St Louis Power Station will be replaced with Wärtsilä engines The modernized power station will provide semi-baseload power, including daily starts and stops, to the local residents and industries.
“By compensating for the gaps in the intermittent output of renewable sources, this fast-reacting plant will be able to support in renewable energy integration,” says Joost Bos, Business Development Manager at Wärtsilä.
Upon completion of this project, Wärtsilä and BWSC’s joint track record in Mauritius will be a significant 200 MW, which represents some 25% of the country’s total capacity.
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