Ilo power station
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Ilo power station is a power station in the department of Moquegua, Peru. Its dual-fuel Ilo 31 and Ilo 41 plants have a combined capacity of 1290 megawatts (MW).[1] The adjacent coal-fired Ilo 21 power plant, retired in December 2022, had a generating capacity of 135 megawatts (MW).
Location
The undated satellite photo below shows the plant, which is near Pacocha, Ilo, Moquegua, Peru.
Background
The plant's original coal-fired power plant, referred to as Central Termoeléctrica Ilo21 in Engie's corporate reports, went online in August 2000 with a capacity of 135 MW.[1][2]
A second power plant known as Ilo 31 Cold Reserve was commissioned in 2013. Its three units, each with an installed capacity of 190 MW[3], are equipped to run on diesel or natural gas.[1][4] Plant owner Engie reports the combined effective capacity of these three units at 500 MW.[4]
Another power plant known as Nodo Energético Ilo 41 or NEPI (Nodo Energético Proyecto Ilo) was commissioned in 2016, with the same dual-fuel capability as Ilo 31.[1][4] Each of its three units has an installed capacity of 240 MW[3], with combined effective capacity reported by Engie as 610 MW.[4]
The Ilo 31 and Ilo 41 power plants are both currently burning diesel, but Engie's plans call for them to convert to natural gas upon completion of the long-planned Southern Gas Pipeline.[5]
Retirement of Ilo 21 coal plant, Unit 1
In December 2019 Engie announced that the Ilo 21 coal plant would close by December 2022 as part of the company's broader decarbonization strategy.[6][7] Engie Latin America's CEO Frank Demaille confirmed the plant's impending closure in a letter to shareholders that appeared in Engie's 2019 annual report, released in March 2020.[1]
Engie's 2021 annual report confirmed that the Ilo 21 coal plant was still scheduled for decommissioning by December 31, 2022, and noted that the plant only operated for 14 days in 2021.[8] The December 2022 shutdown of commercial operations at Ilo 21 was reconfirmed in Engie's mid-year presentation to investors in September 2022[9] and in the company's FY 2022 Databook, released in February 2023.[10]
Cancellation of proposed Ilo 21 coal plant, Unit 2
A proposed 135 MW coal-fired Unit 2 for the Ilo 2 plant was still listed in Platts' World Electric Power Plants Database[11] as of June 2015 but appears to have been abandoned since it has not been mentioned in company reports or other news sources for more than four years.[1]
Project Details
- Sponsor: Engie Energía Perú[1]
- Parent company: Engie
- Location: Pacocha, Ilo, Moquegua, Peru
- Coordinates: -17.7759701, -71.1892805 (exact)
- Gross generating capacity (operating): 1290 MW
- Ilo 31 power station Unit TG1: Gas- or diesel-fired, open-cycle gas turbine, 190 MW[3] (start-up in 2013[4])
- Ilo 31 power station Unit TG2: Gas- or diesel-fired, open-cycle gas turbine, 190 MW[3] (start-up in 2013[4])
- Ilo 31 power station Unit TG3: Gas- or diesel-fired, open-cycle gas turbine, 190 MW[3] (start-up in 2013[4])
- Ilo 41 power station Unit TG1: Gas- or diesel-fired, open-cycle gas turbine, 240 MW[3] (start-up in 2016[4])
- Ilo 41 power station Unit TG2: Gas- or diesel-fired, open-cycle gas turbine, 240 MW[3] (start-up in 2016[4])
- Ilo 41 power station Unit TG3: Gas- or diesel-fired, open-cycle gas turbine, 240 MW[3] (start-up in 2016[4])
- Gross generating capacity (retired): 135 MW
- Gross generating capacity (cancelled): 135 MW
- Ilo 21 power station Unit 2: Coal-fired subcritical, 135 MW[11]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "Memoria Anual 2019 (pp 26-27)" (PDF). Engie Energía Perú. March 2, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "C.T. Ilo 2 Power Plant". Global Energy Observatory website, accessed April 2014.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 "Anuario Estadistico de Electricidad 2020, Annex 6 - Centrales electricas (p 12)" (PDF). Peru Ministerio de Energía y Minas (MINEM). Retrieved 2022-04-15.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 "Informe Anual (p 4)" (PDF). ENGIE Energía Perú S.A. March 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Central Reserva Fría de Generación en Ilo de EnerSur entra en operación comercial". ENGIE. June 20, 2013.
- ↑ "ENGIE to replace 1 GW of coal assets with 1 GW of renewables" (PDF). ENGIE press release. December 10, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Engie cierra central termoeléctrica de Ilo". Diario Expreso. 2020-02-15.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Reporte Integrado 2021" (PDF). Engie Perú. March 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Investors Presentation 1H 2022 (p 11)" (PDF). Engie. September 21, 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "FY 2022 Databook (p 37)" (PDF). Engie. February 21, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 11.0 11.1 "World Electric Power Plants Database". S&P Global Platts, June 2015. The database is not available online but can be purchased from S&P Global Platts.
