The Turkish Karpowership announced its 235 MW powership Ayşegül Sultan departed from Turkey to Senegal. The vessel, which will be anchored in Dakar, intends to begin commercial operation in early October 2019. It will be the first project to generate electricity from LNG in Africa. The company plans to use liquid fuel as bridging fuel in the first six months, then it will fuel the floating power plant with LNG. The vessel is expected to meet 15% of Senegal’s electricity needs.
Karpowership, which is a subsidiary of Karadeniz Holding, operates 22 floating power plants in more than 10 countries around the world. It plans to add 20 more energy ships with a total capacity of 5,000 MW in the next five years and is in the process of negotiating and bidding with 15 other countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In March 2019, Karpowership signed a partnership agreement with the Japanese MOL, Asia's largest floating LNG storage and regasification terminal (FSRU) operator, to create a joint-venture, Karmol. The first common project will be a 120MW LNG-to-Powership project in Mozambique.
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