Wärtsilä group, a Finnish corporation which manufactures and services power sources and other equipment in the marine and energy markets, is to source a 22MW base load power plant to Morocco following «an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract», reports the company today. The Moroccan state which will made use of the new engines has insisted on a specific evaluation principle for the plant which will guarantee «a levelized cost of energy (LCOE)» in a 20 years. The latter is meant to evaluate «the operating period costs divided by the energy produced», says the same source. According to Wärtsilä, the power plant will contain 46 engines that can be filled with heavy fuel oil and light fuel oil; these equipments were ordered on during the second quarter of 2017 and will be ready by the beginning of 2018 while the plant is set to start operating in January 2019. «With this new power plant, Wärtsilä will now have an installed base of 189 MW in Morocco, the total installed base in Africa being 6 GW», concluded Wärtsilä.
