Abby L. Harvey
GHG Monitor
10/16/2015
A consortium led by Saudi Arabia-based ACWA Power and China-based Harbin Electric has been selected as the preferred bidder for the first phase of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority’s (DEWA) 1,200-megawatt Hassyan Clean Coal Power Plant, DEWA Managing Director and CEO Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer announced this week. The consortium bid a levelized cost of electricity of $4.501 cents/KWh based on May 2015 coal prices.
“The bidder has been required to put in place arrangements for the assured delivery of coal to the project over the life of the agreement. The first phase of the project comprises of two units of 600 MW each and will be operational by March 2020 and March 2021, respectively. DEWA is planning to launch two additional projects, to bring the total capacity to 3,600 MW,” Al Tayer said.
The plant will employ ultra-supercritical technology and will output flue gas with greenhouse gas emissions below the limits set in the European Union’s Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) and in the International Finance Corp. (IFC) Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines, according to a DEWA release.
The plant will be built by Harbin Electric and France-based Alstom. Alstom will handle the overall engineering, the supply and eventual commissioning of the power block, and coordinating the balanced integration of all the plant’s components. It will also guarantee the plant’s performance. ACWA and Harbin will operate and maintain the facility in partnership with Alstom Power and U.S.-based NRG. Louis Dreyfus, a major European specialist company, will manage the coal-handling and transshipment facilities. France’s EDF Trading, one of the world’s largest coal traders, will manage the coal supply to the plant, the release says.
“I would like [to] congratulate the companies that have been selected to work with us on this leading project. They will be a part of the success story of Dubai, the Emirate whose ambitions have no limits,” Al Tayer said
