SIMPLE CYCLE PLANT PROJECT IN AFRICA WILL TRANSFORM THE IVORY COAST GRID

E and electricity provider Azito Energie have begun upgrading Azito’s Phase IV simple cycle power plant in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Africa, making the Azito power plant the largest gas power plant in the country to date. The plant will add 180MW of electricity to the Ivory Coast national grid, approximately 8% of the country’s current installed capacity. This is the equivalent needed to power more than 300,000 Ivorian homes, supporting the country’s decarbonisation roadmap and the country’s growing energy consumption needs. For this project, GE provided a GT13E2 2012 MXL2 gas turbine including power generation equipment, analytics and controls software and a service agreement for twenty years to manage all aspects of the project’s lifecycle.