Our thermal power generation experience spans the complete range of skills needed to take a project from concept to commissioning. This includes feasibility and scoping studies, detailed design, plant specification and tender review, contract negotiations, project management and involvement in plant enhancement studies during the operations phase.
We have also used our considerable technical expertise to great effect as the lenders’ engineer on a large number of due diligence assignments during the project finance process for major power plant projects all over the world. We have successfully supported a variety of investors during challenging asset acquisitions.
Mott MacDonald has first hand experience of:
- Gas-fired boilers with power generation
- Open-cycle gas turbines using gas fuels
- Combined-cycle gas turbines using both gas and liquid fuels
- Repowering of existing coal- and oil-fired power plants
These are discussed separately in associated pages.
Sector
- Gas-fired boilers with power generation
- Open-cycle gas turbines using gas fuels
- Combined-cycle gas turbines using both gas and liquid fuels
- Desalination associated with thermal plant including both multistage flash and multiple effect distillation and reverse osmosis
- Carbon capture and storage technologies for new and existing power
- Life extension, upgrading, and refurbishment of existing plant
- Repowering of existing coal- and oil-fired power plants
Services
Our skills and services include these:
- Civil, mechanical, electrical, control, and instrumentation engineering
- Detailed design and specification preparation
- Feasibility studies covering all aspects of power plant development and associated infrastructure
- Full lenders’ engineer services during project finance and asset acquisitions
- Grid connection and transmission network studies
- Owner’s engineer/project management during construction and commissioning phases, and technical advisory services
- Technical input to the preparation of environmental impact assessments
- Technology reviews of new power generation equipment
- Tender review and contract negotiations
- Thermal efficiency modeling
Customer benefits
- Providing a "one-stop shop"
- Assisting bidders with tariff models
- Integrating power with desalination
Savings/value added demonstrated
- Proving lowest tariff structure for bidders in some Middle East independent power producer and integrated water and power projects