Country Rwanda Status Planned Owner(s) Symbion Power | Location Nyamyumba Commission date 2018 (Expected) Primary fuel methane gas | |
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Symbion Thermal Power Station is a proposed 50 MW methane gas-fired thermal power plant located at the Cape of Busororo near the town of Nyamyumba in Rubavu District, in the Western Province of Rwanda.
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Location
The power station will be located at Cape Busororo, near Nyamyumba in Western Rwanda, approximately 163 kilometres (101 mi), by road, northwest of Kigali, the national capital and largest city in the country. This location lies approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi), by road, south of Gisenyi, the provincial capital and nearest large town.
Overview
Symbion Thermal Power Station is owned and operated by Symbion Power LLC, a private energy provider headquartered in the United States. The plant will consist of two facilities: (a) an off-shore installation which will extract, separate and process methane gas, which is dissolved in the deep waters of Lake Kivu, and then deliver it to (b) an on-shore generating facility located at Cape of Busororo, where the gas will be used to generate electricity.
Symbion Thermal Power Station is the second methane gas powered power station in Rwanda, after KivuWatt Power Station, which generates 25MW and is in the process of expanding capacity to 100MW.