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Belle Vue
Location: Mauritius
Operator: Compagnie Thermique de Belle Vue Ltd
Configuration: 2 X 35 MW
Operation: 2000
Fuel: coal, bagasse
Boiler supplier: CNIM
T/G supplier: Thermodyn
EPC: Duke Engineering & Services, Sotramon Ltee, SIDEC
Quick facts: This is the first
IPP in Mauritius and was developed by a special-purpose company consisting
of SIDEC (27%), Harel Frères (51%), the Sugar Investment Trust (14%), and
the State Investment Corp (8%). Financing was by a syndicate of
international banks led by Sumitomo and with risk coverage from Coface.
Bagasse accounts for about a third of heat input.
Photograph courtesy of Sechilienne-Sidec
Posted 1 Apr 2006 |
CTDS
Location: Mauritius
Operator: Compagnie Thermique du Sud Ltd
Configuration: 1 X 35 MW
Operation: 2005
Fuel: coal, bagasse
Boiler supplier: Stein
T/G supplier: Thermodyn, Jeumont
EPC: Sotramon Ltee
Quick facts: This is the second
limited recourse project financing undertaken in Mauritius and was
developed in response to a competitive tendering process initiated by the
Central Electricity Board (CEB) in Jan 2003. CTDS, a consortium of Cie
Energie Sud Ltée (65%), Séchilienne-SIDEC (25%), and the Sugar Investment
Trust (15%), was chosen as the power supplier for PPA negotiations in May
2003. The PPA was signed in Oct 2005 and is guaranteed by the government.
Lenders were Mauritius Commercial Bank Ltd and Barclays Bank with
Freehills and De Comarmond & Koenig acting as legal consultants for the
sponsors and lenders, respectively.
Photograph courtesy of Sechilienne-Sidec
Posted 1 Apr 2006 |
Hwange
Location: Zimbabwe
Operator: Zesa Holdings (Pvt) Ltd
Configuration: 4 X 120 MW, 2 X 220 MW
Operation: 1984-1987
Fuel: bituminous coal, COG
Boiler supplier: ICAL, Babcock Power
T/G supplier: MAN, Alsthom, Ansaldo
EPC: Merz and McLellan, Watermeyer Legge Piesold & Uhlman, Griniker Roberts JV
Quick facts: This is Zimbabwe's largest thermal power plant and was built on a greenfield site 5km from Hwange
town. Cooling water makeup comes through a 44km, 1m pipeline built from a
lift station on the Zambezi River at the Deka River mouth. Coal is
supplied via a 3.5km conveyor from Hwange Colliery's surface mine. The
plant boilers are designed to operated on coal with up to 25% ash which
heretofore had been mostly discarded. Coal burn is around 180,000t/month.
When available, the plant also burns coke-oven gas from Zimbabwe Iron &
Steel's coke works at Redcliff. The plant is being rehabilitated in a a
phased manner with financial assistance from NamPower, which has entered
into a PPA with ZESA.
Photograph courtesy of Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority
Posted 11 Feb 2009 |
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Jerada
Location: Morocco
Operator: ONE
Configuration: 3 X 55 MW
Operation: 1971-1972
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: Teploenergo
T/G supplier: LMZ, Electrosila
Quick facts: The Jerada coal field in northeast Morocco was discovered in
1927 and put into production in 1932 by the local coal company
Charbonnages du Maroc. This 1,000m deep mine worked a difficult and complex
deposit of high-quality anthracite and in the early 1990s was producing
600,000 tpy. It was the only coal mine in the country
until the main works finally closed in 2001/02 after years of declining
output. The Jerada power station is being overhauled. Work on the first
unit was completed in 2010. A new 350-MW set is planned at the site.
Photograph courtesy of ONE
Posted 12 Dec 2004 |
Jorf Lasfar
Location: Morocco
Operator: Jorf Lasfar Energy Co
Configuration: 2 X 330 MW, 2 X 348 MW
Operation: 1994-2001
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: Stein, Alstom
T/G supplier: GEC-Alstom, Alstom
EPC: Ansaldo, ABB
Quick facts: The successful sale of Jorf Lasfar was the most important such development in Africa in
the first half of the 1990s. Equipment for Units 1&2 was ordered in 1988
and the sets were put online in July and December 1994, respectively, at a
coastal site 110km southwest of Casablanca. A consortium of ABB
and CMS Generation was selected in Feb 1995 to take over operations for a period of 30yrs and to
add two additional units. This $1.5bn transaction was finalized in Apr 1996 and completed in Sep
1997. The joint venture invested $395mn in equity plus $190mn from ongoing cash flow
and obtained $920mn in debt financing from ABN Amro, Banque
Nationale de Paris, and Credit Suisse. The U.S. Overseas Private
Investment Corp provided CMS with $200mn of political risk insurance.
Photograph courtesy of CMS Energy
Posted 17 Mar 2001 |
Le Gol
Location: Reunion
Operator: Compagnie Thermique du Gol
Configuration: 2 X 28 MW
Operation: 1995
Fuel: coal, bagasse
Boiler supplier: Babcock-Enterprise
T/G supplier: Thermodyn, GEC-Alstom
EPC: SIDEC
Quick facts: This plant burns all of the bagasse produced by the adjacent sugar mill during the growing
season (about 300,000 tpy) and uses imported coal for the rest of the year
(about 135,000 tpy). About 46 MW is available to the grid on average. Le
Gol has a 35yr PPA with EDF-Reunion and financing was arranged by BNP. The
plant cost ECU 101mn. A 55-MW unit is under construction at the site for
service in 2006.
Photograph courtesy of Sechilienne-Sidec
Posted 8 Apr 2006 |
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Mohammedia
Location: Morocco
Operator: ONE
Configuration: 4 X 150 MW
Operation: 1980-1986
Fuel: bituminous coal, heavy oil
Boiler supplier: Ansaldo
T/G supplier: Ansaldo
EPC: Ansaldo
Quick facts: This power station anchors economic activities in one of
Morocco's most important industrial areas with a
petrochem plant and two refineries. A €40mn plant modernization program is
being developed with a consortium of European lenders. The first two units
are oil-fired.
Photograph courtesy of ONE
Posted 14 Nov 2001 |
Morupule-A
Location: Botswana
Operator: Botswana Power
Configuration: 4 X 33 MW
Operation: 1986-1989
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: Lentjes
T/G supplier: Parsons, Toshiba
EPC: Knight Sinclair
Quick facts: Botswana’s main indigenous
fossil fuel resource is a large bituminous coal field at Morupule west of
Palapye. It was discovered following an exploration program carried out by
the Department of Geological Survey between 1952 and 1962. In 1973,
Morupule Colliery Ltd (93% owned by Anglo American) began
development in order to supply power to the Selebi Phikwe mining complex.
Procution is about 1mn tpy. The Morupule power plant was built later and
is now the country's main domestic electricity source.
Photograph courtesy of Merz and McLellan (Pty) Ltd
Posted 1 Jan 2004 |
Morupule-B
Location: Botswana
Operator: Botswana Power
Configuration: 4 X 150 MW
Operation: 2012-2013
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: Wuxi Huaguang
T/G supplier: Dongfang
EPC: China National Electric Engineering Co, Central Southern China Electric Power Design Inst, Northeast No 2 Electric Power Construction Co
Quick facts: Unt-1 at the B plant began testing in early 2012 and passed its 15-day reliability run on 29 Mar 2012. When the plant completes, a 600-MW power purchase from Eskom will end. The B plant has CFB boilers and a 400kV switchyard. The project EPC cost was $970mn. Since Apr 2010, Fluor Daniel Holdings Botswana has been lead EPC manager for a concomittant expansion of Morupule colliery. ‘First coal’ was achieved on 28 Oct 2011.
Photograph courtesy of China National Electric Engineering Corp
Posted 8 Sep 20121 Jan 2004 |
