Weekly News 30 August 2013 Proposed UK airport may affect Eon’s CCGT, grid Eon’s 1,320MW Grain , a combined cycle (CCGT) plant outside of London, UK that powers a major UK LNG terminal would have to be relocated if plans to build a £68 billion ($106.6 billion) airport on the spot are realised.

oris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has approved proposal for the new airport planned for the , B43 miles from London in . The plan would also require relocating Europe’s View of E.on’s 1,275MW Isle of Grain CHP plant largest LNG terminal, Grain LNG terminal, operated by the UK’s nationwide private transmission system The structure of National Grid’s LNG facility, and gas grid operator (TSO), National Grid. including the CCGT’s 244 metre chimney, has AGENDA the potential to endanger aircraft, according New CCGT at Grain Power Station to the plans’ architect, Norman Foster. Grain power station was converted into a CCGT in Amsterdam’s nearby Schiphol airport Markets 2007 also supplies heat to run Grain LNG terminal may also present issues with traffic control in a combined heat and power (CHP) system. It can with the Grain airport, analysts say. Nigeria’s gas power supply around 1 million households. The oil-fired unit plant privatisation continued on page 2 of Grain-A, was mothballed in December, 2012. sparks bidding frenzy 3 Regulatory risk under capacity markets may exceed commodity price risk Projects & Finance

Capacity markets will provide stable cash flows to South Korea gets thermal generators in the UK to enable them to finance much-needed gas new projects at lower discount rates, reflecting lower fired power plant in risk. However, financiers may find that regulatory Dangjin uncertainty exceeds the price risk in energy-only 4 markets, warns Dr. Jim Fitzgerald, associate partner at Wood Group US Dr. Jim Fitzgerald The Advisory House. location to service oil-and-gas CHP roject financiers tend to weigh up the capacity market design chosen. UK policy turbines regulatory risks against market risks. “Only makers can either opt for an Administrative a carefully joined-up electricity design Capacity Market or a Reliability Market, which 5 Pcan help reach the policy objective of may or may not include capped prices. lower financing costs for much needed new-build Technology power generation capacity in the UK,” he said. Changes in fuel/power price correlation & Innovation For financiers of new thermal projects, the advent Secondly, the correlation between fuel prices of capacity payments will raise two key questions: and wholesale power prices will change, Gaining Flexibility Firstly, will the new regime lead to more stable following the launch of capacity markets. with GE’s LMS100 earnings? The answer is unclear, according to “Unlike the present market, where a rise in gas or 6 Fitzgerald, as wholesale power prices will be prices can be expected to be partially offset by a dampened by differing amounts depending on continued on page 2 2 Policy & regulation 30 August 2013 Regulatory Risk Capacity markets, renewable power generation capacity. continued from page 1 however, heralds another type of No regulation on the cards to help corresponding rise in risk – political integrate gas and renewables wholesale power prices; and regulatory “Renewable generators under the CfD this self-hedging price intervention – which structure will be required to sell their power transmission mechanism in a worst-case at wholesale market prices and nominate will break down under scenario can exceed their expected output under the Balancing the capacity market the underlying Mechanism,” Fitzgerald said, but stressed design,” he forecast. commodity that “existing market arrangements are By fixing revenues price risks. expected to remain in place with no (wholesale power changes for new gas-fired capacity.” prices) but not costs Uncertainty In 2012, the government put in place an (gas or coal prices), leads to higher annual cap on spending on renewables, the capacity markets “could cost of Levy Control Framework, of £7.6bn in 2020. ultimately lead to less financing stable earnings for thermal generators, “Project developers and financiers can do little Carbon floor price, RES FiTs may even if revenues are stable,” he warned. to hedge against political and regulatory risk. lift power prices, benefit gas “So even if the absolute level of risk generation Regulatory risk may exceed may fall, the ability of financiers to Asked to put a number on support for new price risk price that risk at lower levels is not at renewable energy projects in comparison Project financiers will also scrutinize how well all certain, and in fact could lead to a to new CHP, distributed power and large- risks can be managed in a capacity market. higher cost of financing,” he warned. scale fossil power plant projects, he said: Under the existing energy-only market, “There are no direct subsidies for gas the majority of the risk borne by thermal DECC’s Gas Generation Strategy fired capacity forecast within the time projects is related to commodity prices, The British government is fine-tuning a frame according to the government’s which can be hedged or mitigated in a Gas Generation Strategy, developed to latest impact assessment. deep and liquid market, e.g. via power provide more support to gas fired generation. “However, indirect effects of EMR measures purchase agreements (PPAs). Some critics, however, have warned that such as the carbon price floor and feed-in energy regulator Ofgem has not spelled tariffs for renewable energy could result out any specific measures so far to help in a rise in wholesale power prices, to the Gas to Power Journal integrate the dispatch of new gas-fired and potential benefit of gas-fired generators.”n

Publisher Stuart Fryer Proposed UK airport continued from page 1 Britain uses Grain LNG to import over Editor 20 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas per Anja Karl LNG Imports vital for rising UK year. The terminal imports from countries Tel: + 44 (0)207 017 3417 demand like Qatar and has the capacity to supply 20 [email protected] The Grain LNG import terminal is an percent of the UK’s demand. Reporter important resource for UK utilities, providing In the UK and Ireland there are six LNG Cristina Brooks more natural gas security to the grid. Imports terminals including South Hook LNG, Dragon Tel: +44 (0)207 0173402 [email protected] allow diversity of suppliers for the island LNG terminal, Canvey LNG, Gasport Teesside, nation, where natural gas production has and Grain LNG on the Isle of Grain, Kent. Advertising been dwindling since it peaked in 2000. The amount of gas imported into the Narges Jodeyri Operational natural gas pipeline supply UK is expected increase to 60 percent Tel: + 44 (0)207 253 3406 n [email protected] decreased with the retirement of the Frigg by 2020, National Grid said. Pipeline on the Nordic shelf in 2006. Events Grain LNG is an above-ground terminal Kamil Hussain using storage tanks to stock LNG. National Tel: + 44 (0)207 017 3404 [email protected] Grid is considering extending both the capacity and the lifetime of the Isle of Grain Subscriptions import terminal, adding a new storage tank, Stephan M. Venter Tel: + 44 (0)207 017 3407 jetty and a second pipeline, allowing a [email protected] second LNG import berths so that two LNG tankers may unload LNG simultaneously. Production Analysts have said that the Grain Vivian Chee Tel: +44 (0) 20 8995 5540 location, a deep-water port is only UK [email protected] location with sufficient depth to handle the 350 metre-long LNG tankers. Grain Power Station location 30 August 2013 Markets 3 Nigeria’s gas power plant privatisation sparks bidding frenzy

he Nigerian government’s National cripple Nigeria’s economy, the government in Council on Privatization has received 2004 created the National Integrated Power 110 submissions from joint venture Project (NIPP) and targeted it to build 11 T companies interested in operating 10 power stations, overseen by NDPHC. A new power plants under construction, including administration halted the construction of NIPP gas-fired ones. The Nigerian government is plants in 2007 as it reviewed the projects. in the midst of a privatisation programme Keen to fast-track the construction of the that draw to a close at end of this year, 10 plants, President Goodluck Jonathan a deadline set out by Vice President launched a power sector reform in 2010. Namadi Sambo, chairman of Niger Delta Eight of the NIPP plants are single cycle Power Holding Company (NDPHC). gas-fired power plants while two are VP Sambo has given contractors and combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power consultants to the NIPP a deadline backed plants, according to Guardian Nigeria. up by threat of penalties. By 2016, he aims to raise power generation by around 1,000 Blackouts due to persistent NDPHC chairman and VP Sambo percent from current levels, to 20,000MW. gas-pipeline sabotages Following the bidding frenzy on plants Natural gas shortages due to pipeline sabotage of Kainji, Shiroro and Jeba Dams caused up for privatisation, the joint evaluation have plagued operation of gas-fired plants a 460MW hydroelectric power shortfall, committee passed 82 submissions with in recent years, in addition to issues with according to Government officials. a total of 386 expressions of interest power transmission, metering, settlement of on the various power plants. outstanding construction invoices, sinking Nigerian eyes to export electricity The gas-fired power plants involved in foundation, housing and way leave. The government aims to use the proceeds the bidding included the following six: 450 Shortfalls of electricity production from the sale of plants to fund the MW Omotosho, 338 MW Egbema, 225 MW have curtailed the nation’s power supply creation of a transmission system for Omoku, Geregu, 561 MW Calabar, and 675 from highs at around 4,000MW in 2012 national electricity exports, Nigeria Bulk MW Oloronshogo. Other plants being sold to 2,788MW in recent months. Electricity Trader (NBET), that will benefit include, Ogwurode, Olaoje, Bariam Power Shell closed its 624MW Afam VI independent power producers. The NBET Plant and Benin Power Plant. The bids were in July a sabotage of a gas condensate system will be up and running by the end announced by Benue State Governor Gabriel pipeline. Two other plants, Afam VI and of the year if all proceeds as planned. Suswam after a meeting of the Niger Delta Rivers Independent Power Plant (IPP), As head of NDPHC, Sambo Power Holding Company (NDPHC) and the were shut down due to gas shortages. requested $450 million from the Islamic National Council on Privatization (NCP). Hydro power cannot make up for the Development Bank to expand transmission In an effort to solve power shortages that lost gas-fired capacity. Low water level capacity up to 20,000MW. n South Africa’s gas-fired power plans develop US Charge d’Affaires for South Africa, Catherine Hill-Herndon, has said a new gas field south of Cape Town, Ibhubesi, could potentially be used as a source of natural gas to fuel the South African government’s plan for gas-fired power plants. he South African Department of fired power generation in the country discovery of American shale gas reserves. Energy intends to introduce 2,600 from 2 to 11 percent by 2030. Sunbird Energy has said Independent power MW of gas-fired generation to in South Africa producers may potentially develop power T back up under South currently has a 67 percent coal-based plants in South Africa at Saldanha Bay. Africa’s Integrated Resource Plan for according to statistics, complied by the US Gas field under development Electricity, 2010-2030, she added. Energy Information Administration (EIA). The Ibhubesti gas project is awaiting Gas to replace coal in generation mix US grant for South African gas field approval by the Petroleum Agency of South Under the plan, the South African The US recently signed an agreement to fund Africa and the Department of Mineral government foresees securing a minimum a fledgling gas production project of Australian Resources. A decision is expected by 2015. 711 MW from combined cycle gas producer Sunbird Energy, with a grant that The production project could produce turbines (CCGT), between 2019 and will finance a sub-surface development 28.3-billion cubic feet (Bcf) of gas each 2021 as back up for solar-power plants plan, reported Engineering News Online. year for the first six to eight years. to ‘improve security of supply.’ It is following through with plans to work It would be 76 percent owned by The plan looks to increase South Africa’s with trading partners to increase gas-fired Sunbird Energy in partnership with the gas-fired generation mix: expanding gas- power worldwide, in conjunction with the South African state oil company. n 4 Projects & Finance 30 August 2013 South Korea gets much-needed gas fired power plant in Dangjin Contractors Siemens Energy and GS Engineering & Construction (GS E&C), have completed handover of 415MW Dangjin 3, a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant in Dangjin-City, South Korea. The client is South Korean power utility GS EPS.

iemens and EPC GS E&C managed of restructuring the energy sector. generator, a Benson heat recovery steam turnkey construction of the plant. It has since May closed three of its generator and electrical equipment. Siemens also commissioned the plant, 24 nuclear reactors: 14 are suspected to Siemens supplied the controls Sand supplied the generation equipment. have component faults. The power gap system, model SPPA-T3000. created by nuclear plant shutdowns has Gas replacing nuclear meant upping gas-fired power capacity. Gas plant crucial for meeting capacity in Korea South Korea imports nearly its entire demand sudden demand rise South Korea’s Energy Ministry has in for gas in the form of liquid natural gas (LNG). South Korea is planning to expand its generation recent weeks implemented a nationwide capacity from 95 gigawatts (GW) today to electricity conservation policy. The policy Siemens’s H-class gas turbine more than 150 GW by 2030. Siemens said it was implemented as it is in the midst brings efficiency to 61 percent expects gas-fired power plants to account for South Korea is a major customer for Siemens approximately one-third of this amount. H-class gas turbines: so far it has sold eight W.K. Lee, CEO of GS EPS underlined of the 24 in the global fleet in the country. the importance of gas for meeting The H-class gas turbine used at the current levels of demand cheaply. plant was a SGT6-8000H gas turbine with Lee said, “At the moment, Korea’s biggest a superheated steam cycle gives the new challenge is to even out the imbalance CCGT plant a gross efficiency of almost between power consumption and demand. 61 percent and save the Korean Utility Our Dangjin 3 power plant uses Siemens the cost of maintenance and repairs. technology for maximum flexibility. It is Siemens also supplied other plant the best available on the market. Thanks to components including a SST6-5000 steam Siemens H-class technology, our plant operates Dangjin power plant turbine, an SGen6-2000H hydrogen-cooled safely, efficiently and economically.” n Panda Power Funds sites plants in ‘attractive’ shale region Panda Power Funds, a private energy investor, has acquired Moxie Energy’s 829MW combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant under construction, in rural Asylum, Pennsylvania near the Marcellus Shale gas formation. It is the fund’s fourth CCGT investment in the past 13 months. emma-Lane Liberty sells electricity in Delaware, Illinois, and II generating stations in Temple, Texas, Partners, project EPC, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, expanding their current capacity by 758 began construction recently, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, MW to 1,516MW and a new build 758MW Gputting the plant on course Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West CCGT power plant in Sherman, Texas. for operation by early 2016. Virginia and the District of Columbia. Todd W. Carter, president and senior Electronics multinational Siemens The plant will be taking up the slack for partner of Panda Power Funds, said, will provide the power island package some 20,000MW of coal-fired capacity “Following three successful financings including the natural gas turbines, steam retirements have been announced in PJM, in Texas, it didn’t get any easier. turbine and waste heat recovery boilers. expected to improve margins for plants “I’m really proud of our team for getting Panda Power has selected two single-shaft used as reserve or emergency capacity. this job done in a ‘tough-as-nails’ financial Siemens H-class gas turbines, in an unusual market. I’m also very pleased we landed configuration with special blade designs Financing with the help the Liberty project. After looking at a and low output motors whereby the plant of JPMorgan number of opportunities in PJM, we were will use air rather than water for cooling. Panda Power Funds has used a new impressed with the project and the caliber financial instrument, Panda Fund II, along of work done by Moxie Energy.” n Siting plant in shale gas and large with a large institutional co-investor to regional electricity markets supply equity for the Liberty project. The power plant is located in the Marcellus Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and Ares Shale gas formation and will power 1 Capital arranged the senior debt financing for the million Pennsylvania residences. plant. Union Bank was the documentation agent. It will connect to the gas grid via the In has also proposed to build a new Regional Transmission Organisation (RTO) 859MW combined-cycle gas turbine PJM Interconnection, putting the plant (CCGT) Panda Mattawoman power plant, within an attractive electricity market. in Brandywine, Southern Maryland, near the PJM Interconnection operates and US capital of Washington DD, the Temple I Draft of Liberty Power Station 30 August 2013 Projects & Finance 5 Wood Group US location to service oil-and-gas CHP turbines

Scotland-headquartered turbine services company, Wood Group GTS has upgraded its two facilities in the Aberdeen, UK and Houston, US to add more gas turbine maintenance services for turbines used to power industrial oil and gas production.

reviously, these engine Facility expanded to fleet is very large, consisting of lifecycle returns on their assets lines were supported accommodate turbines approximately 1,000 units, while and solutions that increase nearly exclusively by The group can now repair and Siemens’ ranges include global availability and performance Pthe original equipment maintain the two Siemens gas sales of about 400 SGT 100 engines backed by full test capability.” manufacturers (OEMs). turbine models, industrial SGT and 50 SGT 200 DLE turbines. Wood Group GTS services 200 Tornado low emissions and Mark Dobler, president of the following gas turbines: Solar Gas turbines for shale SGT 100 Typhoon, as well as Wood Group GTS, said, “Through Mars, Saturn 10, Centaur 40, gas production Caterpillar Solar Mars turbines. continued investment in both Centaur 50 and Taurus 60 gas Siemens’ SGT 200 is used overhaul and test facilities, turbines; Siemens TB500, TB for gas-fired generation and Facility expanded to we are demonstrating our 5400 and SGT 100 (Typhoon) and combined-heat and power accommodate turbines commitment to further support SGT 200 standard combustion generation in refinery power and Wood Group GTS expanded its fleet owners and operators with gas turbines and the SGT 200 oil fields as well as on offshore two maintenance facilities to choice when it comes to their (Tornado) DLE turbine; Rolls- Floating Production Storage and accommodate more turbines. It gas turbine maintenance. We Royce Avon, RB 211 and Olympus Off-loading (FPSO) vessels. enlarged its engine test facility look forward to providing the 501; GE LM 2500 and LM6000 It is used for emergency and in Houston, US to add the ability operators of these fleets optimal and Pratt & Whitney GG4. n standby power generation. to test Caterpillar’s Solar Mars Like Caterpillar Solar’s other gas turbine range. In Aberdeen gas turbine families, Mars it can cater to the Siemens gas turbines are available for industrial turbine lines after compressor, generator, and adding testing capacity for SGT mechanical-drive applications, 200 dry low emissions and SGT including CHP. They can run 100 Typhoon engine lines. on hydrogen and variable Wood Group has launched fuels. Solar’s range includes a training program to allow its turbines with capacity from 1.1 technicians to work on the models. to 22.4 megawatts (MW). Globally, Caterpillar’s Solar Mars

Solar Mars generation sets 6 Technology & Innovation 30 August 2013 Gaining Flexibility with GE’s LMS100 To fill the gap between its 40+ MW aero-derivative LM6000s and 600+ MW industrial gas turbines (GTs), GE developed the LMS100, combining the best features of both. The LMS100 takes the low pressure compressor designed for the Frame 6FA GT, runs the air through an intercooler, and then into a ‘supercore’, which is based on the LM6000. “In combination, this provides 100 MW of power and ten minute start times,” said Phil Tinne, GE’s LMS100 Product Manager. he LMS100 can ramp power at 50 A primary driver for LMS100 orders MW/min over a very wide load is the high-degree of responsiveness range while staying in emissions and flexibility the platform offers. This “T compliance. It also comes in makes it suitable for incorporation into a 100 MW block size, and burns natural gas areas switching to heavy concentrations which is in increasingly abundant supply at low of renewables where backup generation prices,” ,” Tinne told Gas to Power Journal. and reactive power are required. The ‘supercore’ consists of a high pressure compressor, HP turbine and Operational flexibility an intermediate pressure turbine. “Wind and solar generation cannot Partly due to the intercooler which be counted upon all the time, the GE LSM100 gas turbine reduces the work of compression, the LMS output of the plants can fluctuate 100 also achieves a 44% efficiency rate in significantly, and sometimes quite quickly,” to act as a synchronous condenser simple cycle operation. This combination of Tinne said, “The nature of this fluctuating when the turbine is idle. flexibility and efficiency gives utilities the renewable power requires other generation option of using the same unit for base load, to respond quickly to match the total load Synchronous condenser absorbs peaking or load following operations. demand and maintain grid stability.” reactive power A total of 28 LMS100s were in This makes California, which has a 33% “A synchronous condenser is a synchronous commercial operation at the end of last renewables target, a prime market for the machine that is connected to an electrical system year, with another 23 in the process of being LMS100. Currently 19 units are being installed and absorbs leading reactive power from the installed and commissioned. Nearly all and commissioned at three sites in that state. supply system when over-excited and supplies were simple cycle, with five in combined One of these is the Los Angeles Department Volt Amperes Reactive when under-excited,” cycle operation, according to Tinne. of Water and Power’s (LADWP) Haynes says Morgan Hendry, President of SSS Clutch Together, the GTs had 24,313 starts and Generating Station near the LA Harbor. The Company, Inc. of New Castle, Delaware, a 173,870 operating hours for an average of plant had been using ocean water for cooling, manufacturer of large clutches that are used seven hours per start. An outlier was one but the state Environmental Protection in synchronous condensers. “A synchronous unit in Argentina, primarily used for base Agency is requiring the LADWP to eliminate condenser at the load-end of the line can produce load, which had run for 29,037 hours. once-through cooling at all its facilities. the precise amount of reactive power required.” More than 80% of the LMS100s are “So instead of replacing the gas fired boilers This arrangement gives turbine owners participating in the Operational Reliability with a single, large frame GT, it is going with even greater flexibility when it comes to Analysis Program (ORAP) managed by six LMS100s. These can be started individually participating in power markets, since they Strategic Power Systems (SPS). According or simultaneously, giving the flexibility to go can provide black start, spinning reserve, to SPS, the LM100 fleet has achieved a from 0-600MW in ten minutes,” Tinne said. base load or voltage support as needed. For reliability level of 98.5% with availability example, Connectiv Energy, a subsidiary of at 96.7%. Engine Controllers/IO/Software Problem of voltage support Pepco Holdings, Inc. installed an LMS100 at was the leading cause of forced outages, “However, this arrangement raises the problem it generating station in Millville, NJ outfitted accounting for nearly 15% of all incidents, but of voltage support,” he cautioned, explaining with an SSS clutch so it can participate lightning strikes were the main issue in terms “The old steam turbines were kept spinning in PJM Interconnection’s voltage support of time – accounting for more outage hours continually at minimum load to generate the and reserve markets. The turbine brings than the rest of the Top 10 contributors to reactive power needed, but the LMS100s the generator up to speed and the generator forced outages combined. (See chart below.) would be completely offline when not in use.” stays connected to the grid operating as a This is also a problem synchronous condenser to provide voltage in other areas where support, while the turbine is shut down until power producers are needed for peaking power. LADWP took this using LMS100s’ quick- same approach with two of its LMS100s. start capabilities as a “During extremely slow periods, we could replacement for spinning go all that way down to zero generation and reserve. To address this, just keep the generator synchronized and a Synchro Self Shifting acting as voltage support to the system,” (SSS) clutch can be says John Dennis, LADWP’s Director of installed between the Power System Engineering. “This gives us turbine and the generator, greater overall flexibility and replaces the old allowing the generator technology that took so long to start up.” n Advertorial Gas-fired energy generation – powered by MAN Decentralized power supply is gaining importance – natural gas as a clean fuel has hereby the biggest potential. efore long the energy industry and efficiency can will see much greater use of be further boosted fluctuating renewable energy without adding to sources such as wind and solar the fuel costs. With power. 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