Nexif RATCH Energy is a

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-based company that owns and operates

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s and other renewable energy projects in several countries. It is a joint venture of Nexif and RATCH Group Thailand PCL founded in December 2022.

Power sources

In August 2019, Nexif took up a 25-year lease of the

Temporary Generation North Temporary Generation North and its smaller sibling Temporary Generation South were gas turbine power stations in South Australia. They were bought by the Government of South Australia in 2017 as a response to the 2016 South Australian blackout a ...

consisting of five

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s in

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, with the lease taking effect from May 2020. The generators will be relocated by Nexif to a new site at Outer Harbor and converted to operate on natural gas before the end of 2020. Nexif also proposes to convert them to

combined cycle A combined cycle power plant is an assembly of heat engines that work in tandem from the same source of heat, converting it into mechanical energy. On land, when used to make electricity the most common type is called a combined cycle gas turb ...

with a steam turbine in the following few years.

References

{{reflist Companies of Singapore Renewable resource companies established in 2015