ENDESA's SNET to Install Desulphurisation Systems in the 600 MW Units of Its Emile Huchet and Provenza Plants to Comply with Env
September 27 2005 - 9:52AM
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ENDESA: -- The total cost of the installation is budgeted at Euro
156 million. -- Assembly work began on the Emile Huchet plant in
February and on the Provenza plant this month. -- With this
investment, the plants' 600 MW units will have modern
desulphurisation and denitrification systems in place by 2008,
which will allow them to run efficiently and cleanly beyond 2015.
In compliance with the EU Directive limiting the emissions of
certain contaminating agents into the atmosphere by large
combustion plants (LCPD), SNET, ENDESA's (NYSE:ELE) French
subsidiary, has begun assembling desulphurisation and
denitrification systems at its two 600 MW coal-fired units at the
Emile Huchet (in Lorraine) and Provenza (in Provence Alpes Cote
d'Azur) plants. Existing facilities will also have to be adapted.
Assembly work began on the Emile Huchet plant in February and on
the Provenza plant in September. The total budget for the two units
is Euro 156 million, of which 85% will be allocated to the new
desulphurisation and denitrification systems and the remaining 15%
to plant adaptation. With this investment, the plants' 600 MW units
will have modern gas treatment systems in place by 2008, which will
allow them to run efficiently and cleanly beyond 2015. The
environmental work carried out on the 600 MW units will
considerably reduce nitrous oxide (NOx) and sulphur oxide (SOx)
emissions. For this purpose, SNET has adopted the following
techniques: -- Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) of nitrous
oxides (NOx) using ammonia as a reducing agent. This technology has
achieved excellent results and could lower the concentration of NOx
by as much as 60%. -- Warm gas desulphurisation (WGD) processes
based on calcareous material. This system can reduce SOx
concentration by as much as 75% and yields a gypsum suitable for
sale. These techniques are state-of-the-art in the fields of
desulphurisation and denitrification. The new equipment should not
only boost productivity, but also be able to treat the entire 4
million m3 of combustion gases produced in the boiler. Alongside
the start-up of these desulphurisation and denitrification systems,
all existing gas lines will be adapted to the new characteristics
of the gas emerging from the catalytic converter and warm control
units. The entire process will require the presence of 300 workers
at each plant during the peak of the assembly period. Steps have
been taken and procedures adopted to facilitate the construction
while allowing the units to continue operating. For the new
equipment to be hooked up to existing units, an action plan has
been drawn up enabling this to take place during the plants'
scheduled downtime; i.e. summer of 2006 for the Emile Huchet plant
and the spring of 2007 for the Provenza plant. The two new 600 MW
units should therefore comply with the new emission level
requirements contained in the LCPD by 1 January 2008. Snet to
install desulphuration systems in the 600 MW units of its Emile
Huchet and Provenza plants to comply with environmental
restrictions. * This document may contain certain forward-looking
statements regarding anticipated financial and operating results
and statistics that are subject to risks and uncertainties as well
as to material risks, changes and other factors which may be
difficult to predict, including, without limitation, those factors
described in the Documento de Registro de Acciones of Endesa filed
within the Comision Nacional del Mercado de Valores and in the Form
20-F of Endesa filed within the Securities and Exchange Commission,
both for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004. For all of these
forward-looking statements, we claim the protection of the safe
harbour for forward-looking statements contained in the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
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