BlueScope Port Kembla Steelworks Installation and Commissioning of 22 Turbo Alternator (Revoked)

BlueScope Port Kembla Steelworks Installation and Commissioning of 22 Turbo Alternator (Revoked) was an industrial energy efficiency project located at the Port Kembla Steelworks, approximately 5km south of the Wollongong CBD in the Illawarra region of New South Wales. Registered in September 2016, the project operated within the heavy industrial zone of the steelworks, a site spanning approximately 760 hectares that dominates the local landscape. The surrounding region is defined by a mix of high-density industrial land use, coastal residential suburbs, and the nearby deep-water port operations.

The project was registered under the Industrial Electricity and Fuel Efficiency methodology. This method is designed to credit activities that improve energy efficiency in industrial settings, either by upgrading equipment to consume less power or by installing generation units, such as the turbo alternator specified here, to produce electricity from waste heat or gases, thereby displacing electricity that would otherwise be drawn from the grid. The "22 Turbo Alternator" likely referred to a specific steam or gas recovery turbine unit intended to harness process by-products for power generation.

Environmental conditions in the Illawarra region are characterized by a temperate coastal climate with high rainfall, typically exceeding 1,200mm annually. While the natural soil landscape of the region consists of coastal sandy loams and clays, the project area itself is highly modified "anthropogenic" land, consisting of industrial fill and paved surfaces developed over nearly a century of steelmaking.

On June 24, 2021, the project was revoked under Section 30 of the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Rule 2015. This section governs voluntary revocation, indicating that BlueScope requested to withdraw the project from the ACCU scheme. This is a common occurrence for large industrial facilities covered by the Safeguard Mechanism, where emissions reductions may be accounted for under baseline adjustments or Safeguard Mechanism Credit (SMC) structures rather than as separate offset projects, or simply if the specific infrastructure upgrade did not proceed as originally planned.