Egypt-based energy industry contractor Korra Energi announced on Tuesday the start of operations at its trigeneration project in Abu Rawash, Giza Governorate in the presence of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.

The project provides electricity, steam and chilled water [for cooling] from a single power plant, according to the company’s press statement.

It said the project generates 27 megawatts of electricity in addition to recovering 16 tonnes of steam per hour and providing 430 refrigerated tonnes of cooling.

Project costs and client details weren’t disclosed. However, according to the company website, it was awarded the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) project under a 10-year Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) contract.

The design is based on three natural gas-fired reciprocating generator sets of 9.7 MW capacity each, combined with three waste heat recovery boilers to produce steam (each with a capacity of 5.5 tonnes/hour - operating pressure 10 bar each), which is used in steam absorption chiller system of 500 RT capacity to generate chilled water for cooling.

The power plant is synchronised and load-shared with the grid on medium voltage (11 kV).

The statement said the trigeneration plant will reduce natural gas consumption by 25 percent, and the equivalent of 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually.