AL-RUMAILAH Combined Cycle Power Plant
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Project Information
Iraq, despite its abundant oil and gas resources, has long struggled with an underperforming national power sector dominated by low-efficiency open-cycle gas turbines (OCGTs). The Al-Rumailah Power Plant, located 50 km west of Basra, exemplifies this challenge. Commissioned in 2011 and comprising five Siemens GT5-4000F gas turbines totaling 1,460 MW, the plant historically operated in simple-cycle mode, releasing substantial waste heat into the atmosphere. In response to growing electricity demand and the imperative to reduce carbon emissions without additional fuel consumption, Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity invited KEPPT to retrofit the facility into a combined-cycle power plant (CCPP) under a Build-Own-Operate (BOO) structure. The existing OCGT assets remain under government ownership, while KEPPT will finance, construct, and operate the new steam-cycle components. The project introduces two steam blocks with integrated Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSGs) and steam turbines, enabling the recovery of waste heat to generate approximately 725 MW of additional capacity. This upgrade is expected to raise thermal efficiency to 55%, reduce annual emissions by 4.22 million tCO₂e (totalling 422.36 million tCO₂e over the crediting period), and deliver an estimated 5.36 million MWh of low-carbon electricity per year to the national grid. Critically, the BOO model also demonstrates a pathway for private investment in Iraq’s power infrastructure, advancing long-term energy and climate resilience.
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Additionality
Level 1 additionality
Baseline additionality. Compared to the baseline scenario the project needs to mitigate climate change. That is the project must implement actions that are additional to what would occur compared to the baseline.
Level 2b additionality
Non-enforcement additionality. Projects are non-enforcement additional if their implementation and/or operation is mandated by local legislation or regulation but are systematically not enforced by authorities in the host country.
Level 3 additionality
Technology, institutional, common practice additionality. The project must implement actions that are subject to barriers of implementation or accelerate deployment of technology or activities and carbon market incentives are essential in overcoming these barriers.
Level 4b additionality
Financial additionality II. The project is financially additional if it faces significant financial limitations that revenues from the sale of carbon credits mitigates or are revenues due to the sale of carbon credits are the only source of revenues. When carbon credit revenues are a precondition for the implementation of the project and/or carbon credit revenues are essential in maintaining the project operations and ongoing financial viability post-implementation, then they are considered to be financial additional II.
Level 5 additionality
Policy additionality. Implementation of actions may lie out of the scope of the host country's Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement and, therefore, not eligible for international transfer mechanism. When project implementation goes beyond its host country’s climate objectives and lies outside of the scope of its climate action strategy towards its NDCs, it is considered to be policy additional.
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