Genesal Energy provides emergency power for two sugar farms in Tanzania

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Africa is a continent with great natural resources. Market studies of the states in the eastern region, formed by 14 countries, reflect a 3% growth of the energy sector in the coming years.

In this favourable scenario, one country stands out: Tanzania.

With a population of more than 63 million people, Tanzania’s agriculture is an important source of income, representing 25% of GDP, and sugar cane is one of its most profitable crops. Within this sector, the Kilombero Sugar company is a heavyweight. Its projects to increase production in the medium and long term require solid infrastructures capable of withstanding any unforeseen power supply eventuality, the country having a very deficient electricity network.

Reliability: emergency energy gensets for sugar farms

Genesal Energy has just reinforced the safety of the energy supply in one of its factories of brown sugar for direct consumption.

The company owns and operates two farms close to each other, Msolwa K1 and Ruembe K2, located on both sides of the Great Ruaha River and linked by a bridge. Both farms are involved in brown sugar production and need a very reliable network to carry out their daily business.

The project developed by Genesal Energy for Kilombero Sugar focused on the design, manufacture and commissioning of two soundproof generator sets with three different rooms each: engine-alternator room, control room and storage room.

2xGEN2000YC features:

  • Two soundproofed generator sets were designed in 40 feet containers, guaranteeing an average sound pressure level of 85 dB at 1 m.
  • The container has 3 separate rooms: engine-alternator room, control room and storage room.
  • A Baudouin engine was fitted with a Mecc Alte alternator on an electro-welded steel base with anti-vibration blocks.
  • A 2000 L, double-walled, certified tank was installed inside the container.
  • A water spray fire detection and extinguishing system was installed in the group room and the storage room.
  • CO 2 extinguishers were installed in the control room.
  • Air-conditioned control room.
  • C5 paint surface treatment, in accordance with ISO12944

GEN1100YC features:

  • 40ft Container, guaranteeing an average sound pressure level of 85 dB at 1 metre.
  • Container with 3 separate rooms: engine-alternator room, control room and storage room.
  • Baudouin engine & Mecc Alte alternator on an electro-welded steel base with anti-vibration blocks.
  • 2000 L, double-walled, type-approved tank installed inside the container.
  • Water-spray fire detection and extinguishing system installed in the genset and the storage rooms.
  • CO2 extinguishers in the control room.
  • Air-conditioned control room.
  • C5 paint surface treatment, in accordance with ISO12944

Genesal Energy participates in Data Centre World London, Europe’s leading trade fair specialising in data centres.

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Visitors will have the opportunity to see the company’s most advanced generator sets, characterised by their cutting-edge technology.

Data Centre World

Bergondo (A Coruña). 2024, February

Genesal Energy will show its latest innovations in generator set solutions for data centres and critical facilities at the Data Centre World 2024 in London. This prestigious trade fair that will bring together the sector’s world elite in the capital of the United Kingdom on the 6th and 7th of March. A chance to exchange experiences, learn about the latest products on the market and showcase the most cutting-edge technologies.

Data Centre World (DCW London) is the leading forum for data centre professionals, held in London’s largest exhibition centre, the ExCel. Genesal Energy is going to showcase its latest advances in data centres, a market where the Galician company has been innovating for years to offer the most robust and reliable generator sets. The best service to these key facilities for the digital transformation.

The present and future of data centres, the latest trends, the importance of sustainability and the challenges & opportunities offered by a sector in constant transformation will be the topics to analyse and debate at the annual DCW. London will be the European capital of data centres for two days, both in terms of the number and prestige of exhibitors and attendees.

For Genesal Energy, the fair will also be a good opportunity to exchange experiences and to show its last-generation products adapted to the Uptime Institute standards. The company will have its own stand, D1282, where visitors will be able to exchange their views with professionals from the Spanish company, characterised by providing customised solutions tailor-made to the needs of the client.

About Genesal

Genesal Energy is a business group based in Northern Spain devoted to the distributed energy sector with a firm commitment to innovation, specialisation and sustainability. It takes pride in its strong R&D department and designs, manufactures, and services top-quality generator sets. Internationalisation is key to its business strategy – 70% of its production is exported – it has subsidiaries in Mexico and Peru and sells its products to more than 30 countries.

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We bring energy to the “Carlos Tartiere”, the largest football stadium in Asturias with a seating capacity of 30,500

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With 30,500 seating capacity, the “Carlos Tartiere” municipal football stadium, home to Real Oviedo, is also the largest sports venue in Asturias.

Genesal Energy has designed an open and customised generator set for stadium to guarantee the electricity supply in the event of a possible failure of the main grid. If it happens, the show must go on.

For facilities of this type, the availability of emergency generators has become compulsory by law. The reason is to prevent a simple blackout from forcing the cancellation of a match or competition, with the consequent inconvenience that this would cause the players, spectators and, above all, the club, as it would have serious economic and reputational consequences.

Emergency generator for stadium

“The installation of a generator set in a football stadium guarantees 100% of the electricity supply and that the events in the stadium can take place normally, without problems”, explained the Genesal Energy Engineering Department.

In this type of project, the generator sets must have highly reliable engines to assume the loads quickly in the event of a grid failure, maintaining not only the frequency but also the generation voltage.

Genesal Energy is perfectly aware of the importance of small details and precision in the manufacturing process of generating sets for sports venues and we have carried out numerous projects in this sector. Among our latest works we can highlight the emergency systems for the Mendizorroza stadium and for the municipal stadium of Anduva.

Which was our solution for Real Oviedo FC?

Our client needed to replace a generator in poor condition and reorientate the air inlet and gas outlet due to works being carried out at the sports facility. Based on this premise, the engineering department developed an open generator on a laminated ‘U’ with an independent 1,000 litre tank, switch on alternator and compact box of two batteries. The customer required the input to the group power with two cables per phase and the customised manufacture of the hopper and bellow for the air outlet of the radiator.

Features

  • Emergency unit with external start-up.
  • Open skid on laminated ‘U’.
  • 4-pole CB on alternator.
  • Dimensions adapted to customer’s room.
  • ComAp InteliLite4 AMF 25 controller.
  • Additional heating pump.
  • Additional tank 1,000 litres.

Emergency generating sets for the 4.0 conversion of a large shipyard in Spain

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Genesal Energy has designed three special shipyard generator sets to reinforce the security in the power supply of one of the main Galician shipyards, a benchmark in Spain.

The purpose of the works is to convert the shipyard into a ‘smart factory’ improving all the processes and tools of its value chain and production centres to incorporate them into the new digital ecosystem. A 4.0 Shipyard.

The equipment was manufactured to complement the renovation works on the facilities of the famous shipyard. This works cover four fields of action: machinery and products, applications, people and company. The customer required three generator sets for the supplementary power supply station with a production capacity of 4,5 MVA with an option to extend it by 2,2 MVA.

If there was a power failure at the substation supplying the shipyard, there would be a serious problem, hence the importance of back-up power: our generator sets would be up and running within seconds. Guaranteeing the safety and optimal operation of the facilities.

Shipyard generator: versatility, a plus

The tailor-made generator sets are adapted to work in a saline environment and are 100% versatile. The control system is adapted to operate in parallel with the grid, and an automatic diesel fuel transfer system was designed for refilling from a central tank.

“We took into account the loads that are going to feed the equipment and the type of control that the client is going to use in the installation”, explained Engineering. The containers were also customised according to the final location of the machinery with the colour and design requested by the client.

Features

Equipment for saline environment:

  • Stainless steel exhaust gas silencer.
  • Marinised alternator.
  • Alternator anti-condensation resistor.
  • PT100 probes in alternator windings.
  • Motorised air inlet and outlet louvres.
  • Stainless steel ventilation louvers.
  • Surface paint treatment according to ISO12944 – C5M.
  • Container design requested by the customer.
  • Motorised CBs.

We take part in the extension of Extresol, the solar thermal plant in Badajoz

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When it came into operation in 2010, Extresol-1 was the second plant of its kind in the world.

A budget of 300 million euros, 50 MW of installed power and the use of the most advanced technologies. Extresol uses cylindrical-parabolic collectors within a solar radiation concentration system equipped with a sun-tracking mechanism. The task of these plants is to direct solar radiation from the reflecting surfaces onto the receiver tube and concentrate it about eighty times.

A generator for a solar thermal plant

Built on 2,25 square kilometres of land in Badajoz, Southwest Spain, Extresol currently supplies electricity equivalent to the consumption of more than 30,000 homes and avoids the emission of 149,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. Genesal Energy takes part in the expansion works of this infrastructure doing what we do best: reinforcing the security system with a solid emergency network to avoid issues and shutdowns in the event of failure in the network.

Customer’s need

Our client needed to guarantee the emergency supply in the event of a failure in either of the two existing transformers and it had to be done independently. Genesal Energy installed a 935/1010 KVA open genset placed inside one of the plant buildings, with double switching mounted on the genset itself due to the existing space limitations, and also double mains detection, operating the equipment independently for each of the transformers.

Technical Data

  • 1000 litre specially designed fuel tank on the bedplate.
  • Switchboard integrated in the bedplate, equipped with two 1600A 4P 230V motorised ATS.
  • ATS Mains detection system.