JEP 3: WKPP 66MW

completed

IFC is considering financing for WKPP’s 66 MW diesel engine power plant in an industrial area in Kingston, Jamaica. The plant will be land-based, and fueled with heavy fuel oil. IFC has previously financed JEP’s two barge-based power plants at Old Harbour Bay, about one hour’s drive west of Kingston (projects #4904 & #23524). These plants and the one proposed use Wartsila diesel engines with fuel supplied by Petrojam. All three plants will sell power to Jamaica Public Service Company (JPSCo); IFC has also invested in JPSCo (#11367). The project site will be leased from the National Water Commission, which operated the Western Wastewater Treatment Facility on the property for many years. The site is a portion of the old treatment facility, about 5 ha in area, which allows adequate space for construction of the 66 MW facility, as well as a future expansion of 66 MW. All immediately surrounding land uses are industrial, with warehousing to the east, west and south, and an abandoned Jamaica Railway Corporation maintenance facility to the north. JPSCo’s Hunts Bay generating plant lies on the waterfront just to the west of the site, and WKPP will deliver power to the Hunts Bay substation. Petrojam will supply heavy fuel oil to the project by pipeline from its refinery next to the Hunts Bay generating station. Light fuel oil and lubricants will be delivered by truck, and the truck unloading facilities can also be used for truck delivery of heavy fuel oil if needed. Water for the engine cooling radiators and for other plant uses will be drawn from a nearby city main, and treated by reverse osmosis before use. Sewage and reject water from the RO system will be discharged to the city sewage system. Site runoff will be diverted to Tivoli Gully, which runs parallel to the western site boundary and empties into Kingston Harbor.