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BWSC sponsor this year's Africa Energy Forum

The Rabai Power Plant is a 90 MW heavy fuel oil Independent Power Producer (IPP) project located near Mombasa in Kenya. (Image source: BWSC)

Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC) is a world-leading provider and operator of turnkey power plants, based on a wide variety of advanced technologies using traditional or dry/wet biomass fuels

BWSC is sponsoring and participating in the 19th Africa Energy Forum (AEF) which will take place in Copenhagen on 7-9 June 2017. The AEF is the global investment meeting for Africa’s power, energy, infrastructure and industrial sectors bringing together 75 per cent of Africa’s energy ministries, utilities and regulators to meet and do business with power investors from around the world.

For more than three decades, BWSC has supplied 170 power plants to 53 countries with a total generating capacity in excess of 3,400 MW together with long term Technical Support or Operation & Maintenance provided for more than 1,600 MW. BWSC has demonstrated solid results for the past 15 years and has obtained long-standing AAA credit rating and a Silver diploma by Bisnode.  In 2016, BWSC’s annual revenue was EUR 395 million.

BWSC originates from the historical Burmeister & Wain, which has built and installed diesel engines for power plants since 1904.  BWSC was established as a separate specialist company in 1980 and has since 1990 been a subsidiary company of Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. (MES).

BWSC's range of services includes project development and financial engineering as well as assistance in the planning phase, plant design, turnkey supply of the plant and subsequent Technical Support or Operation and Maintenance.

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