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Stanari thermal power plant lowered intended 43 percent thermal efficiency to 34,1 percent

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The originally planned project with an expected net thermal efficiency of 43 percent was modified to a version with a net thermal efficiency of only 34,1 percent.

It was changed from supercritical pulverised lignite technology to subcritical Circulating Fluidised Bed Combustion.

The cooling technology has also been changed from a wet to a dry cooling system. This is one of the main reasons for the loss of thermal efficiency.

The Stanari power plant is under construction since October 2014 and was planned to be a 420 MW plant. For economic reasons the capacity was reduced by about 30% to 300 MW.

Bosnia & Herzegovina has been a member of the Energy Community since 2006 and is expected to follow certain EU regulations, such as the EU Directive on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). The required assessment had only been carried out for the originally planned 420 MW plant and not for the smaller plant. 

Bosnia and Herzegovina is obliged to adhere to the EU Large Combustion Plants Directive (LCPD), which regulates emissions limit values from new and existing combustion plants. The LCPD will be replaced by the EU Industrial Emissions Directive (IED), which has stricter emissions limits. As may be seen from the table below the exptected emissions from the Stanari power plant are 2 to 3 times higher than the emissions as prescribed by LCPD and IED:

 

This brings Bosnia and Herzegovina into non-compliance with its Energy Community commitments and could only be resolved by further investment into the project in order to re-establish compliance with EU requirements.

Source: CEE bankwatch network  November 2015