Powership

Converted from existing ships, powerships are self-propelled, ready to go infrastructure for developing countries that plug into national grids where required.

[5] During the 1990s, power barges became a popular way of providing energy to developing nations, with companies building power barges including equipment suppliers like General Electric, Westinghouse, Wärtsilä, and MAN; and by developers such as Smith Cogeneration, AES, GMR Vasavi, which operate floating power plants for customers located in New York City (United States), Khulna (Bangladesh), the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Ecuador, Angola, Nigeria, Thailand, Effassu (Ghana), as well as in the Philippines, Jamaica, Kenya and Malaysia.

In April 2011, Waller Marine finalized installation in Venezuela of two large floating power generation barges into a prepared basin at Tacoa.

The two 171 MW barges, each supporting a GE 7FA dual fuel industrial gas turbine, are connected to the grid and soon supply much needed power to Caracas.

In late May 2020, it began operating in the Arctic port city of Pevek, supplying power to the nearby gold mines and settlements.

In 2018, two Chinese companies announced that they would build a fleet of nuclear power barges for the South China Sea islands[6] but the project was suspended in May 2023.

[7] Powerships (as opposed to power barges) are generally based on existing ships repurposed to produce electricity.

Karadeniz Powership Co. Ltd., trading as Karpowership, a subsidiary of Karadeniz Energy Group based in Turkey, developed and carries out a project named "Power of Friendship" that aims to provide a total of 2,010 MW of electricity to more than ten shortage-stricken countries in the Middle East, northern Africa and south Asia with ten different ships by the end of 2010.