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PGE Górnictwo i Energetyka Konwencjonalna S.A.

3rd March, 2011

CCS Demonstration Plant fully

integrated into new unit 858 MW

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Technical specification

of CCS Installation (Basis for Design)

The

Bełchatów CCS Project will include the following key

components:

q Power Plant with gross electrical output 858 MWe
q Carbon Capture Plant & Integration: an integrated post-
combustion Carbon Capture Plant (CCP) with an installed size of
260MWe gross electricity output. The CCP utilizes an Advanced
Amine Process technology with a CO2 capture efficiency of at least
85%. This component will also include the modifications necessary
to the base installation, i.e. Power Plant, to make it capture ready.
q CO2 Transportation: this component will include a pipeline and
an associated infrastructure to transport the CO2 captured and
compressed by the CCP to the storage site.
q CO2 Storage: this includes the injection of pressurized CO2 into
a deep saline aquifer for permanent storage

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Major elements of complexity of the CCS

Project

The new 858 MWe power generation unit which is under last phase
of the construction was originally not designed to be ‘CO2 Capture
Ready’. This means that some modifications to the installation will
have to be implemented to ensure an integration of the CCP. The
key modifications include:

q Re-engineering and re-location of equipment from areas
identified for the CCP.
qTie-in for off-take and return of cooling water required for the
CCP.
qTie-in for off-take and return of flue gas to the main flue gas
ducts.
qModification of IP/LP turbine crossover pipes.
qControl tie-in.

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CCS value chain

Scenario 1: vertical wells

Flow lines

Storage

I1

I2

I3

I4

M1

Manifold

Scenario 2: horizontal wells

Vertical Wells (Scenario 1)

Horizontal wells (Scenario 2)

M1

Entry of main storage Manifold

I1

Injector well 1

Injector well 1

I2

Injector well 2

I3

Injector well 3

I4

Injector well 4 (if applicable)

Injector well 4

Flow lines

Storage

I1

M1

Manifold

I4

Pipeline

Pipeline

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CCS Project Programme

q Capture installation

q Building permit validation: 22 Feb 2010 - completed
qCompletion of Capture Ready modifications: October 2010 completed
qMechanical completion: May 2014

q Transport

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EIA study: Aug 2012

qBuilding permit: July 2014
qConstruction completion: April 2015

q Storage

qStorage site selection: June 2011
qSite characterization: Jan 2014
q Surface Facilities construction completion: July 2015
q National Injection permit: Sept 2015

q Optimization process completion and CCS final acceptance - Dec

2015

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Current critical tasks

q Geological work of phase I completion and storage site selection

by the end of I half of 2011

q 2 Gravimetric pictures - ~1000 km2/ per structure

q Seismic survey - ~500 km length of 2D seismic profiles

q 2 appraisal wells, drilling tests, cores examination

q Modeling, seismic inversion, injection scenarios, risk assessment, site ranking

using all criteria – 3 structures

q Completion of capture FEED study for capture

q Early work programme for capture – detail engineering for key

equipment

q Setting forth procedures for further evaluation of CCS

components

q Public awareness campaign

CCP 3 D visualisation

Status of storage component - I phase

Site selection was originally scheduled for the end of 2010. Currently it is

anticipated to be completed by the end of first-half of 2011. The reasons
for this delay are:

q public procurements rules implicated in

longer the tender

proceeding on geology work contractors selection (protests, ex
ante control)

q problems with public acceptance - large numbers of protests

expressed by communes authority representatives amplified by
environmental NGO’s with reference to

the geology and

geophysical field work

q eventually work programme was done, currently gathered data

are

under

processing/interpretation/modelling

by

Polish

Geological Institute/SLB

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CCS Project Contracors

q Capture island

q Alstom Group – Partner in development of „advanced amine” technology

q Dow Chemical – Supplier of selected solvent to capture CO

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from industrial flue

gas stream

q Integration – „Capture ready”

q Alstom Group

q Transport

q Gazoprojekt – Feasibility Study
q Contractor for engineering and construction – to be selected

q Geology

q Polish Geological Institute (PIG) and Schlumberger – Support during first

appraisal phase

q Additional subcontractors – PBG Ltd, Geofizyka

Toruń, Sp z o.o., PRWiG

PGE Mining and Conventional Power JSC

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CCS Project risks

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Technology is not commercially available yet, risk of scaling up

from pilot to industrial level, constantly exists

q Necessity of optimal project financial structure concept
q Power net efficiency reduction caused by CO

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capture process

q Possibility of lack on public acceptance for CCS, and particularly

concerning CO

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transport and geological storage additionally

amplified by some local environmental NGO’s

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Risk of unobtaining during II phase storage component realisation

to confirm possibilty of permanent and safe geological CO

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storage within selected geological structure

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CCS financial structure

q Non - returnable:

q EEPR –

180 mln EUR

– Grant Agreement signed with EC, May

5th, 2010.

q Financing Sources Under Consideration

q NER 300
q Norwegian Financing Mechanism
q European Investment Bank European Bank for Reconstruction

and Development

q Own equity

External public engagement campaign according

to phase I - site selection

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Thank you for your attention

Marzena Gurgul

CCS Project Director

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