In July, Carbon Energy commenced the construction of the power plant, which the company aims to have up and operational prior to the end of December 2009, with electricity following into the local grid by January next year.
Andrew Dash, managing director of Carbon Energy, said: “We set ourselves an extremely ambitious target of six months (July-December) to disassemble the generating equipment from Victorian location, build the new foundations at our Queensland site, transport the equipment, reassemble, test and commission, ready to connect to the local electricity network.”
While the 5MW power plant is a first phase project for Carbon Energy, the company is also progressing with its phase 2 project, an additional 20-25MW power plant, which will incorporate carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. Front-end engineering and design (FEED) is now underway with the initial report due in December.
