Clarke Energy participated in the 14th Papua New Guinea (PNG) Mining and Petroleum Investment Conference in Sydney Hilton Hotel from 5th December to 7th December. Mining and petroleum companies have faced difficult times since 2013 with sharply lower commodity prices and the El Nino drought affecting several operations such as Ok Tedi. This is … [Read more...]
Captive power plant efficiency for Africa
Power distribution networks across Africa are notoriously unreliable. Frequent power interruptions can be enormously costly for many of the continent’s factories. Not only do power outages disrupt production batches, they can also damage or reduce the life of important plant components such as kilns. This too has a knock-on effect on wider the c … [Read more...]
Clarke Energy wins Platinum Award in Nigeria at HSE Gala
Clarke Energy's Nigerian operations were successful in winning the Platinum Award for Operations in the recent Nigeria HSE Gala and Awards 2015. Patrick Nzekwe, General Manager, Wale Raphael Yusuff, Sales Manager and Kemi Ojo, Business Development Manager attended on the evening, along side business leaders from across the whole of Nigeria. The e … [Read more...]
Powering Africa: Nigeria
Clarke Energy is an associate sponsor for the Powering Africa: Nigeria 14th-15th September 2015 in Abuja, Nigeria. Powering Africa: Nigeria is the only meeting to focus solely on the facilitation of Nigerian power investments and viable power generation, distribution and transmission projects for the country’s industrial sectors. The programme wi … [Read more...]
iPad DRC Oil and Gas Forum 10-11 September 2014
The iPad DRC Oil and Gas Forum is scheduled for 10-11 September in Kinshasa DRC. Oil and gas resources are becoming more and more important for the use of power generation. The key players in the market will be exhibiting at this event. The grid in African countries isn’t always reliable but the energy is much needed for Africa’s rapid growth. Th … [Read more...]
Clarke Energy secures first sale in Algeria with PlastPaper
Clarke Energy has signed its first deal in Algeria at PlastPaper’s industrial plastics facility in Oran. Clarke Energy signs deal to install a captive power plant at PlastPaper’s industrial plastic goods manufacturing facility in Oran Deal represent first megawatt of GE’s Jenbacher gas engine power plants for Clarke Energy in the count … [Read more...]
Côte d’Ivoire International Summit 2014
The International Mining, Energy/ Oil and Gas Infrastructure Summit will be held 1-3 October at the Gold Hotel in Abidjan, Republic of Cote d’Ivoire. Significant players within the mining, energy, oil and gas sector will be presenting their services and products. Renewable energy investments will be one of the main topics at the event. You will h … [Read more...]
WAPIC 18-19 November 2014
The West African Power Industry Conference 2014 (WAPIC) will be held on the 18-19 November in Lagos, Nigeria. This is the main event in Western Africa to get informed about the current market developments within the energy sector. Africa is growing, and so is its economy. To secure this growth, constant energy is needed. Clarke Energy has … [Read more...]
EAPIC 3-4 September 2014
The 16th East African Power Industry Convention (EAPIC) is scheduled for 3-4 September 2014 in Nairobi, Kenya. This event covers all aspects of the power industry in East Africa. Over 50 suppliers from all over the world will be represented at this event to assist visitors in taking the right energy related decisions by showing their expertise in … [Read more...]
Energize ABSA Towers Virtual Power Service
Mike Rycroft, author and features editor of EE Publishers – Energize magazine, looks into the concept of a Virtual Power Station (VPS) and finds that ABSA Energy Centre running Jenbacher gas engines is a suitable candidate to operate as a VPS. (September 2013 issue). This article was published by EE Publishers www.eepublishers.co.za in the Sep … [Read more...]
Rivers State Delegation Visits Jenbach
A high level delegation from the Rivers State in Nigeria has visited Austria for an engine test. Earlier this year we announced a project the Clarke Energy has secured near Port Harcourt in Nigeria. Integrated Medical Industries Ltd are delivering a World Health Organisation certified medical equipment facility at the forefront of the fight against … [Read more...]
Biogas First in Kenya with Tropical Power
Tropical Power, a developer of biogas and solar plants in Africa, has signed a deal with Clarke Energy to supply the first two containerised Jenbacher biogas engines in Sub-Saharan Africa. The units will be supplied to an agricultural biogas plant located at a farm near Lake Naivasha, in Kenya. Pioneering development for biogas in Kenya - F … [Read more...]
Powering the Fight Against Malaria & Aids
Integrated Medical Industries Limited (IMIL), a Nigerian medical equipment maker, has contracted with Clarke Energy to install a captive power plant on the front line of the battle against malaria and aids. Double first: The manufacturing plant is the first World Health Organization (WHO) Performance Quality Safety (PQS) pre-qualified plant … [Read more...]
East Africa Power Industry Convention (EAPIC), 2012
East Africa Power Industry Convention, EAPIC, from the 10-13th September 2012. The event will be taking place at the Serena Hotel in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This will be Clarke Energy's first exhibition in East Africa. Clarke Energy is looking forward to supporting industry in Tanzania through the delivery of captive power plants in the … [Read more...]
Flour Mills of Nigeria, Captive Power Plant
This is the world’s second largest flourmill and the pipeline natural gas fueled generating sets have been installed to provide all the site power, previously supplied by diesel based generation plant. The 9 x GE Jenbacher JGS620 gas engines are rated at 3.041MWe each and were installed during 2006 at the Flour Mills of Nigeria plant in Apapa, Lagos … [Read more...]
