Know-how group Wärtsilä has signed a long-term service settlement for 2 years with ContourGlobal, a worldwide vitality supplier primarily based within the U.S. The settlement covers the corporate’s Cap des Biches energy plant in Dakar, Senegal.
The plant dispatches energy to the nationwide electrical energy distributor Senelec, and reliability of provide is crucial. The Wärtsilä settlement is designed to make sure that the shopper’s industrial and contractual phrases and circumstances are met. The order was booked by Wärtsilä in March 2023.
The Scope of the Settlement
The plant delivers an output of 86 MW. The scope of the settlement consists of all spare elements for main overhauls of the engines, elective area service personnel to hold out upkeep duties, together with a assure limiting the downtime throughout scheduled upkeep procedures.
“We’ve labored carefully with Wärtsilä on initiatives in numerous nations, and admire the skilled and extremely certified assist that they can ship. This settlement gives us with vital ensures that can permit us to produce electrical energy to the grid in keeping with our commitments. Moreover, it gives predictability of prices, whereas liberating our individuals to deal with their core enterprise,” stated ContourGlobal’s CEO for Africa, Ara Hovsepyan.
“Our partnership with ContourGlobal has been robust for quite a few years, and this settlement represents one other step in furthering the connection. Lengthy-term service agreements are a central aspect in our lifecycle assist method to assembly the precise operational wants of our prospects. They arrive with ensures that promote each reliability and operational efficiency,” commented Marc Thiriet, Vitality Enterprise Director, Africa, at Wärtsilä.
Wärtsilä has earlier equipped engines and vitality storage methods for ContourGlobal energy crops in numerous nations in Africa and the Caribbean.
