Symbion Thermal Power Station is a 56 megawatts (75,000 hp) methane gas-fired thermal power plant located at the Cape of Busororo near the town of Nyamyumba in Rubavu District, in the Western Province of Rwanda.
[1] The power station is located at Cape Busororo, near Nyamyumba in Western Rwanda, approximately 163 kilometres (101 mi), by road, northwest of Kigali, the national capital and largest city in the country.
[2] This location lies approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi), by road, south of Gisenyi, the provincial capital and nearest large town.
The plant consists of two facilities: (a) an off-shore installation which extracts, separates and processes methane gas, which is dissolved in the deep waters of Lake Kivu, and then delivers it to (b) an on-shore generating facility located at Cape of Busororo, where the gas is used to turn gas turbines to generate electricity.
The money will be used to develop both power stations to generate a combined 106 megawatts (142,000 hp).