Finnish marine and energy solutions provider Wartsila is to supply a 92 MW gas-fired baseload power plant to industry machinery and power generation provider Sullair Argentina.
The commission includes Wartsila's 50SG engines running on natural gas, which are to be installed in Sullair's Caimancito power plant in the north west of Argentina, Wartsila said in a statement.The project, worth some Eur30 million, was signed in July, and is part of five contracts that the company was recently awarded in Argentina.
“Argentina is suffering from energy shortage due to a history of widespread subsidies that have distorted the energy price and regulations that have complicated investments in power generation and distribution” the company explained in the statement. “Now the government seeks to remedy the issue by investing heavily in new capacity, focusing especially on increasing efficiency and adding renewable energy.”
“The government was originally tendering for dual-fuel engines but we offered an alternative solution with Wartsila’s gas engines and we won” said Luis Vago, director of operations at Sullair.
The equipment for the Caimancito power plant is expected to be delivered during 2016 and the plant will be fully operational in June 2017.