Ecuador's CELEC Announces Winning Companies of the 380-Megawatt Cold Reserve Tender

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--On June 18, Ecuadorian state-owned company Corporación Eléctrica del Ecuador (CELEC EP) (Quito, Ecuador) announced the winning companies of the tenders for the supply, installation and commissioning of up to 380 megawatts (MW) of thermoelectric generation capacity in cold reserve. The winning companies will install a total of 330 MW, distributed among three locations using internal combustion engines.

On April 1, 2010, CELEC released the bid documents for the installation of 380 MW using steam turbines or internal combustion engines, distributed among four possible locations with the objective of stabilizing the electricity supply to the grid during the ebb-tide phenomenon that affects the country's hydropower plants in the summer. For further information, see April 15, 2010, article - Ecuador's CELEC Launches Tender for 380 Megawatts of Thermal Power Generation. On April 23, CELEC decided to call off the tender because of timing constraints and relaunched it five days later with an extension of the schedule. For further information, view related May 5, 2010, article - Ecuador's CELEC Re-launches Bidding Process for Installation of 380 Megawatts of Thermoelectric Power.

Finally, only two of the eight companies that presented proposals were selected for the installation of internal combustion engines in the cities of Santo Domingo (Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas), Quevedo (Los Ríos) and Santa Elena (Santa Elena). All three locations belong to state-owned transmission company Transelectric SA (Quito). No valid proposal has been submitted for the fourth location proposed on the bid documents, the Puerto Atún area in the city of Jaramijó (Manabí).

The two winning companies are Equitatis SA (Guayaquil, Ecuador) and the Mexican subsidiary of Spanish company Grupo TSK (Gijón, Spain), TSK Electrónica y Electricidad SA (Mexico City).

TSK Electrónica y Electricidad will install a total of 140 MW at the Santo Domingo location on a single block of 36 internal combustion engines at an investment of nearly $164 million and a construction period of 240 days.

Equitatis was awarded with the installation at Quevedo and Santa Elena. Quevedo's location will have a total installed capacity of 100 MW, which will be constructed in 150 days at a total cost of $119 million. In the city of Santa Elena, 90 MW will be installed in a 150-day period, at a cost of $107 million.

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