Nehuenco Power Plant
Encyclopedia
Nehuenco Power Plant or Nehuenco I or 1 is a natural gas
electrical generating station
in Quillota
, Valparaíso Region
, Chile
. The plant uses both natural gas and diesel as fuel and produces 368 MW of electricity
. The plant was built in 1999 and is run by Colbún S.A.
.
Natural gas
Natural gas is a naturally occurring gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, typically with 0–20% higher hydrocarbons . It is found associated with other hydrocarbon fuel, in coal beds, as methane clathrates, and is an important fuel source and a major feedstock for fertilizers.Most natural...
electrical generating station
Power station
A power station is an industrial facility for the generation of electric energy....
in Quillota
Quillota
Quillota is a city and commune located in the Aconcagua River valley of central Chile's Valparaíso Region. It is the capital and largest city of the Quillota Province where many inhabitants live in the surrounding farm areas of San Isidro, La Palma, Pocochay, and San Pedro...
, Valparaíso Region
Valparaíso Region
The V Valparaíso Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions.Valparaíso Region, 2006 With the country's third highest population of 1,539,852 million in 2002 and third smallest area of , the region is Chile's second most densely populated after the Santiago Metropolitan Region...
, Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
. The plant uses both natural gas and diesel as fuel and produces 368 MW of electricity
Electricity
Electricity is a general term encompassing a variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge. These include many easily recognizable phenomena, such as lightning, static electricity, and the flow of electrical current in an electrical wire...
. The plant was built in 1999 and is run by Colbún S.A.
Colbún S.A.
Colbún S.A. is an electric utility company in Chile. The company was created in 1982 and privatized in 1997. Originally it had only two hydroelectric plants, Machicura and Colbún from where it gets it name. Today Colbún S.A. generates a total of 2514 MW of which 1274 comes from hydropower and 1236...
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