The Departments of Industry and Energyand companies Enarsa and Impsa They agreed on Tuesday to launch a “strategic survey” of the eight hydroelectric plants whose concession expires next year, after 30 years of private management.
The study “will allow us to have an overview of the state of the power generation equipment and determine the actions to be carried out to optimize its maintenance and plan its rehabilitation,” he said. Productive development it’s a statement.
The survey will be carried out based on “standardized criteria used worldwide and applicable to all types of hydroelectric power plants.”
This work is added to that carried out by the Concessioned Hydroelectric Exploitation Work Team (Etahc) of the Secretary of Energy from the beginning of 2022.
Ethac’s work focuses on the status of the technical, economic, legal and environmental aspects of each plant, in order to define the steps to follow with each of them.
The new survey will allow the incorporation of Impsa’s experience
“Impsa is a strategic company that once again confirms the synergy that exists between the different areas of the State to value our resources,” said the Secretary of Industry, Jose de Mendiguren.
Meanwhile, the Secretary of Energy, Flavia Royon, valued the “great know-how” that Impsa acquired “in technological and turbine developments.”
“Argentina has the human resources and business skills to promote hydroelectric development in our country,” Royon stressed.
Currently, there are 57 hydroelectric plants in the country, without counting those of multinational control such as Yacyretá or Big Jump.
Of these plants, 79% are over 30 years old, housing 116 generation units of different powers.
The survey announced today “will grant a comparative qualification between equipment and plants, and will provide comparable records that will allow future maintenance and rehabilitation tasks to be updated.”
This year the concession contracts granted in 1993 for Alicurá (of Aes Alicurá, 1,000 megawatts), the El Chocón and Arroyito plants (Enel Generación, 1,200 Mw and 120 Mw), Planicie Banderita (Orazul Energy, 450 Mw) expired. , and Piedra del Águila (Central Puerto, with 1,400 Mw), whose control passed into the hands of Enarsa.
The state firm already carried out last year, together with Impsaa survey of the five power plants.
The new surveys will focus on the eight concessions that will expire in 2024, to which will be added the reports prepared by Etahc and which will have time to be issued up to six months before the expiration of each contract.
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Source: Ambito
