NOT much has been said about the ministerial determination printed in the Government Gazette on April 20 2016 that 3,750MW of coal-fired electricity supply capacity will be through cross-border power procurement. It requires that this capacity be secured from independent power producers (IPPs), and the procurer will be the Department of Energy.This is the latest determination in terms of the long outdated Integrated Resource Plan — IRP 2010 — for electricity supply. This is clearly being retained as the official plan until various desired procurements are so advanced as to be unaffected by a new plan. The department committed to a two-year planning cycle, but has produced nothing since a draft IRP Update Report was tabled in 2013 and later withdrawn.The notice explains that the 3,750MW "represents the capacity allocated to ‘Coal Pulverised Fuel (PF), Fluidised Bed Combustion (FBC), Imports … for the years 2025 to 2030…" in the IRP 2010.Thus the capacity allocated to various kinds of...
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