carbon credit calculations using hazelwood

Fubolista,

Further to your post I’ve done some calculations using the Hazelwood powerstation as a case study. (Why Hazelwood in IMO? see my previous post)

Using figures provided in the PP commercialization presentation and other sources you can start to see some hard numbers appearing that strongly supports a case for ESI if you are a powerstation.

CO2 output is 17m tonnes per annum Govt capped at 425m over its life (25 years)
18 tonnes of brown coal are burned pa at the powerstation
Looking at the BFS, scaled up plant sizes will be 150k, 1.5m and 5 m. Assuming Hazelwood chooses the largest 5m ton plant this would equate to a coldry supplement mix of 27% (5m/18m) x100
At 27% the emission reduction ratio works out roughly to 15% or 2.7m tonnes pa saved
Dollar value @$20 per ton=$54 million pa in carbon credits!

All this and we are still not crunching financials relating to extended mine life revenue (approx another 3.75 years) and ash and water reduction savings.

The case for PowerStations to adopt coldry products is so high it’s becoming rather frustrating that we are still waiting for a concrete deal to be released to market.

Cheers to all that hold.