BATEMAN's services to the power and energy market are differentiated by providing services which combine several key capabilities. This includes front- and back-end technologies for environmental control, experience of co-generation projects in which energy is extracted from waste heat and gas, expertise to manage and conduct large multi-disciplinary projects and raise finance for projects to process natural resources.

BATEMAN operates primarily in the South African power and energy sector, providing process design for power generation, transmission of electricity, control and instrumentation systems and systems optimisation for both the traditional power-generating and the independent power producers (IPP).

Many front- and back-end technologies have been provided for large coal-fired power plants in South Africa, ranging from technologies for coal beneficiation (both dense-media and jigging), to handling of run-of-mine and clean coal, including stackers and reclaimers and conveying, boiler-plant fans and regenerative-air heaters, flue-gas cleaning, boiler-feed pump and booster-pump plants, dust control, ash classification and water and effluent treatment.

BATEMAN also has access through associate companies to specialist expertise and technologies such as co- and trigeneration, waste-to-energy conversion, and denox (removal of nitrogen oxides from the atmosphere).

Services include technical, economic and financial analyses, due-diligence reviews, feasibility studies, site evaluation, arranging project finance, engineering design, fuel and development consulting, procurement, project and construction management, commissioning, training and subsequent operation and maintenance. Power and energy projects are taken from the initiation stage through the project lifecycle to commercial handover with assistance during the maintenance phase, if required.

BATEMAN is in a position to assist clients to respond to the increasing pressure on industry to perform in an environmentally responsible manner. It has a suite of services which encompass environmental-impact assessments (EIA), environmental-management systems (EMS) and audits, and environmental monitoring. EIAs and EMSs are undertaken, in association with external specialists, for coal-fired, gas, and hydro- and wind-powered installations. EMSs are established in accordance with the requirements of ISO 14001, from the development of an organisation's environmental policy through to the development of documentation.

Other projects currently under investigation include a 200MW open-cycle gas turbine for peaking power generation using natural gas, a 500MW combined-cycle power station utilising coal-bed methane, a 270MW plant utilising circulating fluidised-bed technology to combust waste coal and a 300MW combined-cycle power plant in northern Africa using natural gas.

In addition to the commercial plant considered, new, novel but practically feasible environmentally friendly power generation technologies are being considered in partnership arrangements.