Symbion Thermal Power Station is a

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-fired thermal power plant located at the Cape of Busororo near the town of ''Nyamyumba'' in

Rubavu District Rubavu District is one of the seven districts of the country district (''akarere'') in Western Province, Rwanda. Its capital is Gisenyi, It has a large beach resort and border city. It has a total surface area of 388.3 Km2. Geography The distri ...

, in the

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Location

The power station is located at Cape Busororo, near Nyamyumba in Western Rwanda, approximately , by road, northwest of

Kigali Kigali () is the Capital (political), capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre in a region of rolling hills, with a series of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. As a primate city, Kigali has been Rwa ...

, the national capital and largest city in the country. This location lies approximately , by road, south of

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, the provincial capital and nearest large town.

Overview

Kivu 56 Power Station is owned and operated by Symbion Power LLC, a private energy provider headquartered in the United States. The plant consists of two facilities: (a) an off-shore installation which extracts, separates and processes

, which is dissolved in the deep waters of Lake Kivu, and then delivers it to (b) an on-shore generating facility located at Cape of Busororo, where the gas is used to turn

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to generate electricity. Kivu 56 Power Station is the third methane gas powered power station in Rwanda, after

KivuWatt Power Station KivuWatt Power Station is a methane gas-fired thermal power plant in Rwanda. Location The power plant is located in Kibuye, Karongi District, in the Western Province of Rwanda, approximately , by road, west of Kigali, the capital and large ...

, which generates 25 MW and is in the process of expanding capacity to 100 MW, and the

Kibuye Power Plant 1 Kibuye Power Plant 1, also Kibuye Thermal Power Station 1 (KP1), is a methane gas-fired thermal power plant in Rwanda. Location The power plant is located in Kibuye, Karongi District, in the Western Province of Rwanda, approximately , by r ...

, which is also owned by Symbion and is undergoing phased expansion to . Symbion Power has registered a Rwandan subsidiary company that it owns 100 percent by the name ''Shema Power Lake Kivu Methane Limited'', to design, fund, build, own, operate and maintain the Kivu 56 Power Station. Four gas turbines, each rated at 16 megawatts, power the plant to produce 56 megawatts of clean energy.

Construction

According to the power purchase agreements signed between the relevant parties, the first from this power station, are expected in 2018. In September 2017, Symbion sold US$100 million worth of equity in its two Rwandan projects; namely Kibuye Power Plant 1 and Kivu 56 Power Station. The money will be used to develop both power stations to generate a combined . A total of US$370 million is budgeted to fulfill that goal.

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Symbion Power Acquires Existing KP1 Power Plant On Lake Kivu, Increasing Investment Level To US$330 Million

Lake Kivu’s Great Gas Gamble
Natural gas-fired power stations in Rwanda Proposed natural gas-fired power stations

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