Lumcloon Energy Develops 350-Megawatt Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant in Ireland

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Researched by Protel Associates Limited in alliance with Industrial Info Europe (Galway, Ireland)--Lumcloon Energy Limited (Tulamoore, Ireland), a joint venture between two Irish companies, R&R Mechanical Limited and Terotech International Limited, was founded to develop a natural gas-fired power plant at a brownfield site formerly occupied by a peat-powered power station in Lumcloon, County Offaly.

Lumcloon Energy has obtained a ruling that the proposal to build a 250-megawatt (MW) combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT), a 100-MW single-cycle power generation plant, and a Research & Development Centre at the site of power utility Electrical Security Board's former peat-power plant in Lumcloon is of strategic national importance. In effect, this will fast-track the project through the planning phases. Plans reportedly have been lodged with governmental planning board An Bord Pleanala and will undergo a five-day validation exercise, before being made public in early September. Final approval is targeted for early 2010.

Both power units will have gas turbines with diesel supply backup, and onsite storage of diesel will amount to 5,200 cubic metres of tankage. Additionally, the CCGT will have a steam turbine. The associated R&D facility will develop a novel air-cooled condenser system called 'MACC,' which is believed to be a more efficient system than most available. The plant is slated for completion by late 2012.

The CCGT will have two gas turbines and one steam turbine; the MACC air-cooled condenser system; and diesel fuel storage liquids for fuel and effluent handling. The peaking plant will require a gas turbine, pipe work, diesel storage tanks, pumps, valves, control and instrumentation, and grid connection.

There is significant international interest in the project from financial backers. Recent press speculation suggests that Mitsui & Company (NASDAQ:MITSY) (Tokyo, Japan), among others, is interested in taking a share in the Lumcloon Energy business.

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