Roundtable Discussion; The Future of Mineral Sands. Watch the video here.
Castle, in an interview in December Keith Riley said that it would take about two or three months to make a final decision on the contractor and nail down an estimate for the project, and then some time to finalise the funding and reach Financial Close. So still a few months to go for that I'm afraid.
Regarding the CEO, PHE have just recently appointed a new Chairman, and as long as Keith Riley is happy to continue as acting CEO I don't expect they will be in a hurry to appoint a new CEO. Probably sometime later this year.
Yes of course they will need to start on sit clearance and foundation during Feb-March to avoid expiry of the planning permission, but I was meaning the start of the main construction of the buildings. I don't know anything about the special steel, but I believe that the TCC has been ordered but can't remember the name of the company that's manufacturing it.
Hi MJA, That's pretty much along they lines I was thinking as well. I believe that Enviroo are looking to take Plots 10A, 11 and 12 as well as Plot 13 with obtained planning permission in April 2021, and I'm sure I saw an indication somewhere that they had got agreement with Peel on those sites. As Plot 13 (Enviroo) and Plot 10B (Peel/PHE) are at a similar stage i.e. having obtained planning consent, and given the operational connection between the two, I expect that the two sites could be developed at the same time, and hopefully that will be sometime this year. Start of construction about mid-year perhaps?
In Enviroo's web site, in April 2021 when they received planning permission for their plant at Protos, they stated that they planned to be operational by summer 2022. Clearly that didn't happen, but does anyone know what their current timeline looks like? This matters because I believe they will be providing the feedstock of end-of-life plkastic to the DMG, and it would make sense if the construction of the two facilities was co-ordinated.
https://enviroo.co.uk/enviroo-receives-planning-permission-for-first-plant/
I am quite sure that the SP will move significantly when we get confirmation that financial close has been achieved and construction has started. And the SP will move even higher when they start producing electricity.
Bear in mind that once the DMG technology gets accepted and other DMG facilities are built, they will not all be producing hydrogen. Some will just produce electricity, depending upon what is required in each local area. There will be lots of profit to be made by just producing electricity.
I don't think they need thee hydrogen off-take to be ready before they build the DMG facility because they can start by generating electricity into the local grid and then add the hydrogen facility at a later date when the hydrogen refuelling station has been built.
For those who keep suggesting that HUI is going it alone and abandoning PHE, check out this comment:
"At HUI we intend to work with our partners in Konin, Powerhouse Energy Group plc, to determine the most appropriate system to be installed in Walbrzych."
There will be no re-listing until Angola is sorted.
For ships that are already powered by diesel-electric it might be a matter of replacing the diesel generators with hydrogen/FC generators. Then presumably they would need ammonia fuel tanks and ammonia crackers. Not exactly simple modifications, but possible.