The MV ''Karadeniz Powership Fatmagül Sultan'' is a

Liberia Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean ...

-flagged

Powership A powership (or power ship) is a special purpose ship, on which a power plant is installed to serve as a power generation resource. Converted from existing ships, powerships are self-propelled, ready to go infrastructure for developing countries ...

, a floating power plant, owned and operated by

Karpowership Karpowership is a Turkish builder, operator, and owner of a fleet of powerships. Since 2010, 36 powerships have been completed with their total installed capacity exceeding 6,000 MW and further capacity under construction (or scheduled). Karpow ...

. Built as a

barge Barge nowadays generally refers to a flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion. The first modern barges were pulled by tugs, but nowadays most are pushed by pusher boats, or other vessels ...

, she was converted into a Powership in 2013 at

Sedef Shipyard Sedef Shipyard ( tr, Sedef Tersanesi) is a Turkish shipyard established in Gebze, Kocaeli in 1972. Shipyard moved to Tuzla, Istanbul in 1990. The shipyard is building defense industry ships and commercial ships such as the multi-purpose amphib ...

Tuzla, Istanbul Tuzla is a municipality of the province in Istanbul, Turkey on the Asian side of the city next to the municipality of Pendik. Tuzla is on a headland on the coast of Marmara Sea, at the eastern limit of the city. The mayor is Şadi Yazıcı ( AK ...

, Turkey. She is commissioned to supply electricity to the power grid in

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

Ship

The long vessel has a beam of .

Powership

Converted into a

power barge Power most often refers to: * Power (physics), meaning "rate of doing work" ** Engine power, the power put out by an engine ** Electric power * Power (social and political), the ability to influence people or events ** Abusive power Power may a ...

by Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul in 2013, she was renamed ''Fatmagül Sultan'' after the sister of Karadeniz Holding's chairperson. Equipped with eleven

electric generator In electricity generation, a generator is a device that converts motive power (mechanical energy) or fuel-based power (chemical energy) into electric power for use in an external circuit. Sources of mechanical energy include steam turbines, gas ...

s, four high-voltage

transformer A transformer is a passive component that transfers electrical energy from one electrical circuit to another circuit, or multiple circuits. A varying current in any coil of the transformer produces a varying magnetic flux in the transformer' ...

s and operated by a crew of sixty technicians and engineers, the Powership has an installed generation capacity of 202 MW on

dual-fuel A flexible-fuel vehicle (FFV) or dual-fuel vehicle (colloquially called a flex-fuel vehicle) is an alternative fuel vehicle with an internal combustion engine designed to run on more than one fuel, usually gasoline blended with either ethanol o ...

( HFO- and gas-fired). The Powership's fuel tanks capacity allows her to generate ten days long uninterrupted power. According to a power purchase agreement, worth US$370 million, signed on July 13, 2012 in

Beirut Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...

with the Lebanese Government, the Powership is the first of two to supply a total of 406.2 MW electricity in Lebanon. The Powership left Turkey on February 8, 2013 heading for Lebanon. She arrived at her destination after one week voyage. Following a ceremony held in Beirut in early April 2013 in presence of

Gebran Bassil Gebran Gerge Bassil ( ar, جبران جرجي باسيل; born 21 June 1970) is a Lebanese politician who is the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement since 2015. A Maronite Christian, he is the son-in-law of President Michel Aoun, and has bee ...

, Lebanese Minister of Energy and Water, the Powership began to supply 188 MW electricity to the grid in Lebanon, where the demand on electric power grew up more than expected from 2011 on through increased consumption and the influx of refugees of the Syrian Civil War. For a period of three years, at least 15% of the country's electric power needs is generated by the Powership. "This makes out additional two hours' electricity a day for the power-shortages beset country" as stated by the general manager of Électricité du Liban, main Power Utility of Lebanon. The contract expired in September 2021, while Électricité du Liban owed Karpowership overdue payments in excess of $100 million. Powership has stopped its supplies on 1 October 2021.

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