Colliery triples capacity to feed new power station :: Mmegi Online

PALAPYE: The P1.7 billion expansion of Morupule Coal Mine (MCM) is now complete with the mine's production capacity tripled primarily to meet demand from the new 600MW Morupule B Power Station whose first unit is set for commissioning next month.

Morupule B Power Station - which is executed on an engineering-procurement-construction (EPC)/Turnkey basis - entails the engineering design, manufacturing, procurement, construction and commissioning of four of 1500MW units. The first 150MW unit is expected to be in service by January 2012 and the last by October 2012.

MCM, formerly known as Morupule Colliery before the ongoing re-branding exercise, currently produces about one million tonnes of coal per annum (mtpa) with 60 percent of the production (600,000 tonnes) feeding into the existing 120MW Morupule Power Station.

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Colliery triples capacity to feed new power station

PALAPYE: The P1.7 billion expansion of Morupule Coal Mine (MCM) is now complete with the mine's production capacity tripled primarily to meet demand from the new 600MW Morupule B Power Station whose first unit is set for commissioning next month.

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