Endesa and Maire-SES-Techimont to Build $620 Million Thermal Plant

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). The electric generating company Endesa Chile (NYSE:ELE ) signed a contract with the Maire-SES-Tecnimont Chile consortium of companies for the construction of the Bocamina II Thermal Plant that will be located in Bio Bio (VIII Region). The power plant is scheduled to be operational by mid-2010.

The $558 million engineering, procurement and construction contract is part of a total investment of $620 million. The plant will have a capacity of 350 MW and it will be fired by bituminous coal. According to Rafael Mateo Endesa’s Chile General Manager, the plant will be connected to the Central Interconnected System (SIC) and it will contribute with an important amount of electricity to the Chilean population.

Bocamina II will be equipped with the latest technology and equipment in regard to emission reduction, such as combustion gas desulfurization, filters, and low-NOx burners.

Maire Engineering Group (Roma, Italia) and its subsidiary in Brazil will be responsible for the engineering and the equipment acquisitions while General Electric (Maire’s supplier) will equip the plant with the turbine and generator. Slovenske Energeticke Strojarne (SES, Bratislava, Slovak Republic) will provide the boiler and Tecnimont Chile will coordinate the commercial and administrative works that will be done.

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