Both South Africa and Ghana have considered the rental of power ships - a special purpose marine vehicle on which a power plant is installed as a short-term solution to solve the energy crisis.
The Ghanaian government requested two power ships from the Turkish energy producer company, Karadeniz Holdings' Karpowership unit, which are due to arrive in August and will be operational by September 2015.
This potential solution was presented to Eskom, the Department of Energy (DoE) and the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) by the same Turkish company. Earlier in 2015 Mr Aphane, the DoE's deputy director-general for policy, planning and clean energy, expressed that the department was looking into short-term alternative solutions such as a power barge and power ships.
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The Ghanaian government requested two power ships from the Turkish energy producer company, Karadeniz Holdings' Karpowership unit, which are due to arrive in August and will be operational by September 2015.
This potential solution was presented to Eskom, the Department of Energy (DoE) and the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) by the same Turkish company. Earlier in 2015 Mr Aphane, the DoE's deputy director-general for policy, planning and clean energy, expressed that the department was looking into short-term alternative solutions such as a power barge and power ships.
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