We’ve increased our presence in Africa: emergency power for a luxury hotel on Ivory Coast

Guaranteeing permanent power supply is essential in any hotel, especially if we’re talking about one in the African continent, where it’s necessary to take special caution to avoid any issues with the mains network.

One of our latest projects in Africa has taken us to Ivory Coast: we manufactured and supplied two special gensets for a new luxury hotel in the city of Abidjan, without a doubt the economic capital and most modern city in the country, with impressive skyscrapers and a great port area.

With more than 25 million citizens, Ivory Coast is one of the most dynamic countries in the continent, aspiring this year to turn into an emerging country thanks to its constant and sustained growth, sitting at around 7% until 2023.

Customised solution

For the hotel complex, the client needed two gensets capable of adapting to the building, so at Genesal Energy we came up with a special solution.

Upon listening to the client’s needs and analyzing the hotel’s infrastructure, both units were built with their own control systems comprised of a tactile screen and a PLC in order to manage the redundant operation for both gensets.

Likewise, with the goal of making connection easier, a busway was designed so that both gensets could operate redundantly, alternating the operation between one another.

The gensets were manufactured following French standards with regard to safety installations.

Features

• Cooling system with heat exchangers through a remote radiator.
• Power outlet to existing busway in the installations.
• Redundant operation.
• Control of the distribution boards in the client’s installations.