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Fuel Flexible Power Generation to electrify Africa Authors: Per Johansson, Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery AB, Sweden Lars Ekbom, Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery AB, Sweden Mike Welch, Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Limited Abstract In order for industry to grow, economies to expand and living standards to improve, Africa needs a low cost source of power. In Western economies, natural gas is the fuel of choice, providing clean low cost electricity at all scales – from Combined Cycle Power Plant producing thousands of MW to small-scale Cogeneration schemes, some even at kW scale. But this model is not necessary applicable to Africa, as the power system and gas pipeline infrastructure may not exist, or not be sufficiently reliable, to provide an uninterruptible supply of electricity. In more remote locations, natural gas is not necessarily a suitable fuel due to issues around availability and the cost of constructing a pipeline network, so making better use of locally available or easily transportable low cost fuels is therefore desired. While oilfields can use the produced crude oil as a fuel for power generation, the lower cost refinery products, such as Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO), can be used as the main or back-up fuel for electricity production, freeing up premium fuels like #2 Diesel for transport applications. But using these types of low cost fuels creates additional technical challenges, especially for maintenance of the generator sets in more remote locations to ensure power availability. This paper looks at how gas turbine technology originally designed in the 1950s was developed and has been improved in recent years to meet the requirement to use these high viscosity, low cost liquid fuels to provide local power for industry and communities with minimum maintenance needs, and looks at the applicatio