Location: São Luís (MA)
Source: pulverized coal
Installed capacity: 360 MW (megawatts)
Start-up forecasted for:  first semester of 2012
Generated Jobs: 3,700 (direct jobs)
Status: Installation License granted
 

UTE Itaqui


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Situated in the state of Maranhão,  MPX Itaqui Thermoelectric will start running in 2012. This is a state-of-the-art plant, employing clean coal technology. Check how it works.
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Situated in São Luís (MA), five kilometers from the Itaqui Port, MPX Itaqui will be a pulverized coal-fueled thermoelectric plant designed with 360 MW installed capacity– enough to supply power, on average, to 65% of the state of  Maranhão.

At the new energy auction A-5, held in October 2007,  MPX Itaqui traded  315 average MW, ensuring fixed earnings of about R$ 252 million (base: March/2009) , indexed to the IPCA inflation index, for 15 years, as of 2012.

In March 2009, MPX Itaqui was issued an Installation License by the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama).

This plant will receive the coal it needs at the Port of Itaqui.  When plant works relying on  local labor, reach their peak, this venture will generate approximately ten thousand  direct and indirect new job opportunities, thus contributing to regional market warm-up.

Aiming at local labor development for the  Itaqui, Pecém and Parnaíba power plants,  MPX has already qualified 1,200 in the states where the company is doing business in association with well known teaching institutions.

MPX Itaqui has already  qualified 600 residents of  São Luís (MA) in different courses.  Overall, 30 groups  have already completed their courses, and another two groups will graduate by the end of the year.  This is a project developed jointly with  Senai and plant construction consortium.

These are some of the  courses offered by MPX in the region: Bricklayer, Metal Setter, Carpenter, Hydraulic Plumber, Metal Works, NR10, First Aid, Firefighting and Administrative Assistant.

In a joint initiative with State of Maranhão Technological Institute and Maranhão Education and Technological Development Foundation,  MPX Itaqui has offered training to  thermoelectric plant operators. Out of the 35 trainees,  15 have already been hired to work at the plant.

Follow-up the progress of the works

The Relocation of the families that previously lived at plant construction site and in  the vicinities, and the use of the Clean Coal Technology  are other concrete actions taken by  MPX Itaqui  in line with the best sustainability and  socioenvironmental responsibility practices.

Investments
Total: R$ 1,8 billion
  • Total amount financed: R$ 1.241 billion, in December, 2009
  • Finance institutions and loan amount: BNDES (R$ 797 million), Bradesco and Votorantim (R$ 241 million), BNB-FNE (R$ 203 million)


MPX Itaqui is part of Federal Administration PAC (Growth Acceleration Program).

​MPX Itaqui signed an Engineering, Procurement and Construction Contract – EPC with  Mabe Construção e Administração de Projetos Ltda., a joint venture between  Tecnimont and Efacec. Plant turbines will be supplied by Siemens and boilers by Doosan Babcock.
 

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