Kivu 56 Power Station is owned and operated by
Symbion Power LLC, a private energy provider headquartered in the United States. 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. Kivu 56 Power Station is the third methane gas powered power station in Rwanda, after
KivuWatt Power Station, which generates 25 MW and is in the process of expanding capacity to 100 MW, and the
Kibuye Power Plant 1, which is also owned by Symbion and is undergoing phased expansion to . Symbion Power has registered a Rwandan subsidiary company that it owns 100 percent by the name
Shema Power Lake Kivu Methane Limited, to design, fund, build, own, operate and maintain the Kivu 56 Power Station. Four gas turbines, each rated at 16 megawatts, power the plant to produce 56 megawatts of clean energy. ==Construction==