CCGT Plants in Southern Mexico
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Planta Apizaco Location: TLAX Operator: Procter & Gamble de Mexico SA de CV Configuration: 45-MW CHP with LM6000 gas turbine Fuel: natural gas Operation: 2007 HRSG supplier: ?? T/G supplier: GE EPC: Santos CMI, Genesys Quick facts: When P&G acquired Cia Loreto y Pena Pobre, it acquired the tissue paper factory at Apizaco. The new industrial CHP plant is one of the largest in Mexico.
Photograph courtesy of
Genesys
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Cantarell Location: TAB Operator: Petroleos Mexicanos Configuration: 4 x 85 MW 7001EA Fuel: natural gas Operation: 2000 T/G supplier: GE EPC: Fluor, ICA Quick facts: Linde built the world's largest nitrogen plant to pressurize the Pemex Cantarell oil field offshore Yucatan. Each of the four giant compressors requires 52 MW of electricity.
Photograph courtesy of
Linde AG
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Merida-III Location: YUC Operator: AES Merida III S de RL de CV Configuration: 480-MW, 2+1combined-cycle with W501FC gas turbines Fuel: natural gas, oil Operation: 2000 HRSG supplier: Nooter T/G supplier: WH, Siemens EPC: WH Quick facts: This $230mn project was the first non-captive, private power plant investment since the nationalization of the Mexican Power sector in 1960. The development consortium consisted of AES Corp (55%), Nichimen Corp (25%), and Grupo Hermes(20%). Merida III has a 25yr PPA with CFE.
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Tula CC Location: HGO Operator: Comision Federal de Electricidad Configuration: 1 X 290 MW, 1 X 309 MW 2+1 combined-cycle blocks with W501F gas turbines Fuel: natural gas Operation: 1981-1984 HRSG supplier: ?? T/G supplier: WH, Hitachi EPC: Alstom Quick facts: One of the first modern combined-cycles in Mexico, also known as Perez Rios. The second steam set was changed out for a Hitachi machine in Jun 2002.
Photograph courtesy of Equipo Amelko
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Tuxpan III and IV Location: VER Operator: Union Fenosa Configuration: 2 X 490 MW, 2+1 combined-cycle with M501F gas turbines Fuel: natural gas Operation: 2003 HRSG supplier: MHI T/G supplier: MHI Quick facts: At completion, this $615mn plant was the largest IPP investment in Mexico to date.
Photograph courtesy of
Union Fenosa
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Tuxpan-V Location: VER Operator: Electricidad Sol de Tuxpan S de RL de CV Configuration: 500 MW, 2+1 combined-cycle with M501F gas turbines Fuel: natural gas Operation: 2006 HRSG supplier: Cerrey T/G supplier: MHI EPC: MHI Quick facts: The plant operating company is a 50:50 joint venture of Mitsubishi Corp and Kyushu Electric Power Co. Electricity is sold to CFE under long-term contract. The site is about 250km northeast of Mexico City and has four other CCGT blocks, three of them built by MHI. The Tuxpan-5 equipment order was place in Aug 2004. The gas turbines were built at the Takasago Machinery Works and the steam turbine at the Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works. JBIC agreed $210mn in financing support for Tuxpan-5.
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Valladolid-III Location: YUC Operator: Compania de Generacion Valladolid (CGV) Configuration: 525 MW, 2+1 combined-cycle with 7001FA gas turbines Fuel: natural gas Operation: 2006 HRSG supplier: Nooter, Cerrey T/G supplier: GE, Toshiba EPC: Mitsui, Toshiba, Bruns & Roe, Kepler Quick facts: CGV is a 50:50 joint venture of Mitsui and Chubu Electric Power Co. The company has a 25yr PPA with CFE, which also supplies natural gas for the project. Calpine was an original partner in the project with a 45% stake. This was bought out by the other partners in Apr 2006 for $43mn. Loan agreements and political risk guarantees were supplied by Japan Bank for International Cooperation.Valladolid-3 came online in Jul 2006.
Photograph courtesy of
Mitsui & Co Ltd |
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Data: industcards, Platts UDI World Electric Power Plants Data Base
Updated 04/18/10