1,400km transportation completed across remote route not suited to heavy cargo.
By 2021, Burkina Faso seeks to increase electricity access from 20% to 80%, as part of its National Plan for Economic and Social Development. A key phase of this plan was an upgrade to Kossodo thermal power plant project, which would provide an additional 50MW capacity; strengthening the production capacities of the national network.
Contracted by Burkina Faso office of FRACHT France, a branch of FRACHT Group, Mammoet’s scope comprised complex land transportation of components from the Port of Takoradi in Ghana, across the country to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso with a total distance of 1,400km.
Manufactured by Germany’s MAN Energy Solutions, the power plant expansion equipment consisted of three 325t engines, three 59t generators, two 80t transformers and three 16t turbo chargers, with each ranging in length up to 13m, in height up to 6.6m and in width up to 6m.
Once completed, Kossodo power plant aims to increase national generation capacity by almost 20%; doubling the number of customers to 1 million and contributing to the economic growth of the country by providing wider access to power.
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