Marina Consults is a Think Different Venture Company, a subsidiary of Emhed Plus Nigeria Limited, representing NEXT.Co Ltd of South Korea in Africa, with Business Development & Marketing Strategy Consulting from Omnibus Accenture Company Limited. Our products are built to change the face of Water Transportation, Telecoms, Entertainment, Leisure, Oil & Gas sectors on the continent for good. We Guarantee State-of-the-art, Secure, Eco-friendly and Efficient Floating Systems tailor made to fit the African market.

floating energy plant for IPP projects

Floating Power Plants (FPPs), or Power Barges as they are more commonly called, have been around for many years. In fact one of the earlier units, constructed in 1940 by the US Army Corp of Engineers, a 30 MW steam generation facility and put into service in the Philippines, is still in operation at a site in Ecuador.

Since then, the idea has lain dormant; in fact it was not until the early 1990s when acute power shortages were being experienced in several countries in South America and SE Asia that the concept was revisited. This spurred the construction of several power barges designed with medium and slow speed diesel engines burning heavy fuel oil, with installations in Guatemala, Honduras, the Dominican Republic and the Philippines. Heavy fuels were selected as the fuel of choice mainly due to cost and availability, with consideration being
given to simply meeting World Bank emissions standards being made at the time. Single barge designs ranged from 30 MW up to 100 MW.