The gas-fired Newcastle Cogeneration Power Plant has a nominal power capacity of 18 MW and can deliver just under 1 million tonnes of steam per annum using two Siemens Tornado gas turbines, two Aalborg boilers, and a steam turbine, equipment originally installed in a facility designed to supply a UK paper plant
IPSA believes that the efficiency of the Newcastle plant is such that it will be eligible for carbon credits under the UN Clean Development Mechanism.
The company, which claims to be the only independent operator in South Africa’s previously state-run power sector, is in negotiations to acquire turbines for the first 500 MW of generating capacity at the planned Coega project at Port Elizabeth on the south east coast. This plant is due on line from the first half of 2008.
Originally planned at 800 MW, it was increased in size to 1,600 MW. IPSA has reserved both Siemens Westinghouse and Alstom gas turbines to form the open cycle components of the twin block project, which will initially operate simple cycle.
IPSA intends that the full 1,600 MW Coega plant will eventually run on LNG imported into what will be one of only two LNG receiving terminals currently planned for South Africa.
The company is also hoping to progress with its Elitheni mine project, a 400 MW mine mouth coal-fired development using clean coal technology, that is to be built at Indwe in the Eastern Cape north of Port Elizabeth.
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