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CUBA STANDARD — During a visit to the shipyard of a floating power plant operator in Turkey, Cuba’s energy minister announced the island will contract a fifth powership, making the floating power plants a semi-permanent feature.

Energy Minister Liván Arronte Cruz said in a Tweet that Istambul-based Karadeniz Power Holdings will move another powership to Cuba, delivering an additional 15 mw to the grid.

 

 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

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 that plug into national grids where required.[1] Unmotorised powerships, known as power barges, are power plants installed on a deck barge. These are sometimes called "floating power plants" or "barge mounted power plants". They were initially developed during World War II by General Electric for the War Production Board as a transportable large-scale power generation resource.

Powerships or power barges can be equipped with single or multiple gas turbines, reciprocating diesel and gas engines, boilers or nuclear reactors for electricity generation. Bureau Veritas, an international certification agency with experience in overseeing both shipbuilding and power plant development, classifies such floating power plants as "special service power plants".[1]