Independent Power Production

We operate several cogeneration plants at different sites:

• ICL Dead Sea –In August 2018, ICL’s new natural gas-based CHP (combined heat and power) plant at Sdom has became fully operational. The plant operates with significantly enhanced efficiency compared with the previous installation. The new plant has a production capacity of approximately 230 MW of power, supplying most of the electricity demand for all ICL Israeli sites, and thus replacing most previously externally purchased electricity by ICL Israel. Some surplus electricity from the new plant is also sold by ICL to the Israeli national grid. The plant also supplies the ICL Sdom various facilities with approximately 330 tonnes of steam per hour. Due to its full natural gas operation, embedded high efficiency and highly advanced pollution reduction technologies, the new plant also allows for a significant reduction in direct air emissions such as NOx (Nitrous Oxide).  It also is expected to reduce the total ICL greenhouse gas emissions (replacing indirect external Scope 2 emissions with lower levels of direct Scope 1 emissions).
• ICL Rotem – Sulphuric acid plants and the Pama plant (which uses oil shale as a primary fuel) together provide electrical production capacity of 40MW and 340 tonnes of steam per hour. These cogeneration plants operate at a high efficiency level, and receive heat generated by the sulphur combustion and conversion process.
• ICL YPH JV – High temperature heat recovery systems at the sulphuric acid plants provide both steam and electricity for process needs.
• ICL UK CPL –The cogeneration plant operated by the site has been in operation for many years and the first phase of the re-engineering of the entire plant was completed in 2016. A full re-evaluation of the cogeneration is expected during 2020.
• ICL Germany Ladenburg- Since 2014 the site has benefited from a CHP plant with a production output of 2 MW of electricity, 1 MW of steam and 1 MW of hot water.