The Arandis Power IPP is a joint venture of Namibian and international companies, that have developed a unique and unprecedented proposal for the base load generation of electricity using heavy fuel oil (HFO) and solar PV energy. Arandis Power is proposing the construction in Namibia of a power plant with and output of 120MW using 7 massive 17MW Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) engines weighing over 350 tonnes each, manufactured in Italy by a world leader engine driven power generation, Wärtsilä of Finland. The originality of the Arandis Power project lies in the power station’s “8th engine” option. This is a 45MW PV solar park. The solar park is not operated in the traditional manner where electricity is self-dispatched into the national grid as and when an electrical current is generated. Here the PV element is used exclusively as a fuel saving mechanism for the power produced by the HFO engines.