The Moranbah North power project is supplied with waste coal mine gas sourced from Anglo Coal Australia’s (ACA’s) Moranbah North Mine to run 15 – 3MW engines to produce base load power to the grid, with the effect of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by more than 1.3 million tonnes of CO2eq annually.
Stephen Robertson, Minister for Natural Resources, Mines and Energy and Trade, Queensland, said: “This power station is a good example of two companies joining forces to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by generating electricity using WCMG which would have otherwise been released into the atmosphere.
“This power station takes waste coal methane gas, which is 21 times more damaging to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, and other noxious gases and turns them into base load electricity.”
The power plant is said to be one of the first to create renewable energy certificates under the Federal Government’s recently passed Renewable Energy Target legislation that comes into effect in 2011.
Cynthia Carroll, chief executive of Anglo American, said that the project was the second time Anglo Coal and EDL had come together to reduce emissions, with another power station previously opened at German Creek in 2007, also located in Queensland’s Bowen Basin.
