Clean Coal Power Company’s Nakoso IGCC plant, a 250 MW unit designed to test MHI’s air blown IGCC technology, has reached the end of its demonstration phase and is likely to be brought into service sometime in the spring next year as a commercial unit.
The plant started its demonstration run in September 2007. A wide range of successful tests including emissions measurements showing a reduction of 20 per cent compared to conventional coal burn, has convinced its operator and shareholders, which include Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) and Tohoku Electric Power Co, that the facility is ready for commercial operation.
Its shareholders have decided therefore that the demonstration phase should be brought to an end on 31st March 2013, after which, in viewof the continuing and anticipated power shortages in Japan in the aftermath of the disastrous earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011, the facility can be brought on line commercially. It has been agreed that Joban Joint Power Company Ltd (JJP) will takeover the Clean Coal Power Company and will continue IGCC operation as a commercial plant.
