Zambia: Wärtsilä signs service agreement

Finland’s Wärtsilä Corporation announced on 15 May that it had been awarded a ten-year operations and maintenance agreement for the 50MW heavy fuel oil (HFO) Ndola Energy Company Ltd (NECL) power plant in Zambia. NECL is a subsidiary of Great Lakes Energy NV. The power plant will comprise six Wärtsilä 32 generators using HFO from the Indeni refinery adjacent to the power plant. It is expected to begin selling power to the Zambia Electricity Supply Company Ltd in July.