The site of the proposed 168 megawatt gas-fired power station is located near Dongara in mid-west Western Australia. Eneabba Gas is the only energy company in the region to have received all approvals required for the development of a gas-fired power station.
The extension of the Full Works Approval was granted without any amendments, which confirms the company’s environmental delivery criteria have again been endorsed by the EPA.
Power from the Centauri 1 station is proposed to be marketed to the fast growing mid-west region of Western Australia according to a company spokesperson.
In April 2009, Eneabba Gas executed a Heads of Agreement (HoA) with Carbon Energy to acquire over 1,000 sq km of coal tenements in the Perth Basin, to develop an underground coal gasification (UCG) syngas supply for the Centauri 1 Power Station.
Under the HoA, Eneabba will work exclusively with Carbon Energy to conduct exploration drilling to identify a coal resource of at least 300 million tonnes (MMt), that is suitable for UCG and to negotiate a share sale agreement and a long term gas sale agreement for 5.5 – 16.5PJ/a for the Centauri 1 Power Station.
Eneabba Gas recently released the first detailed resource statement from one of its ten tenements which confirmed coal resources in excess of 160 MMt.