Natural gas engines to power new plant

 

Wartsila's engines, the largest in the world. wartsila

 

 

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Mexico News Daily | Saturday, May 2, 2015

 

A Finnish company has received final approval to build a 139-megawatt power plant in Nuevo León to supply power to Guatemala.

Wartsila Corporation will begin work immediately on the natural gas-powered plant, which will employ seven of the company’s 18-cylinder 50SG engines, the largest gas engine in the world.
 
Wartsila will supply 950 gigawatts of electricity a year to two utilities, Eléctrica de Guatemala and Energuate, exporting the power through Mexico. The plant is expected to begin operating next April, and will run at full output 24 hours a day to produce the required electricity.
 
The internal combustion engines were chosen for their reliability and fuel efficiency, regardless of extreme temperatures.

The project, to be built in Pesquería, near Monterrey, will double Wartsila’s capacity in Mexico to 280 megawatts.

“Mexico is a very interesting market for us,” said Raul Carral, Wärtsilä’s business development manager. “Flexible engine power plants can help optimize the power system by providing efficient peaking power and fast-reacting back-up for wind and solar energy. This can lead to significant savings.”

Wartsila was contracted by Energía del Caribe, which will be the plant’s owner and operator. Financial details were not revealed.

Source: Stockhouse (en), Milenio (sp)
 

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Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon to attract USD 700m for Wind Energy

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Mexico’s Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon states expect to attract over USD 700 million in wind energy investments as of 2015, Jose Maria Leal, head of Tamaulipas’ energy agency, declared on Tuesday, January 24th.

The investors are looking for strategic locations for projects worth over USD 100 million each, whereby the governments expect jobs, regional development and lower electricity costs.
For the more advanced projects, there are talks over wind power supplies with department store chains, Leal said.

The first wind farm will be built in Ciudad Victoria city from March and will generate some 100 MW initially, while an additional 150 MW is planned for a later stage.

Mexico’s Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon want to attract USD 700m for wind energy (Photo: SeeNews Renewables)

Tamaulipas already has a 54-MW wind park opened last year in Reynosa by retailer Soriana (MXK:SORIANAB) and partners. There are wind projects in the municipalities of Llera, Casas and Matamoros, among others.

Source: http://renewables.seenews.com/

19th Century Aqueduct Found Hidden Under Scrub in Northern Mexico

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MEXICO CITY – An aqueduct 110 meters (360 feet) long and 5 meters (16 feet) high, built in the mid-19th century and which remained hidden under vegetation for many years, was discovered in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, the national archaeological authority said.

The discovery was made during the work of clearing the land, whose owner reported it to the Linares municipal government, which in turn asked the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) to get involved and make an evaluation of it.

Architect Benjamin Valdez Fernandez of INAH in Nuevo Leon, leader in the task of authenticating the discovery, said that “it is a very important find.”

“We have nothing similar in Nuevo Leon in terms of the dimensions and construction” of this well preserved hydraulic work that has 33 arches of the Tudor type, ogive,” he said.

The aqueduct begins at ground level like an irrigation ditch, but as the land begins to slope downward, a series of arches is formed to support the channel that carried water to the end, where there was a waterwheel and a sugarcane mill, INAH said.

Valdez said it is believed to have been built around 1860 due to the fine sandstone construction and smooth finish of its walls.

“A very interesting feature of the construction, which we believe to have been done by Jesuits, is it 33 arches, a very important number in religious imagery. According to the Catholic faith, Jesus died on the cross at age 33, and 33 is the number of years that David reigned over the ancient Kingdom of Israel,” the researcher said.

As for the state of the aqueduct, he said that just a few stones have fallen from three of the 33 arches, which need major restoration, while the rest of the construction requires only maintenance.

Spain’s Acciona Energia Wins Contracts for 2 Wind Farms in Mexico

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MADRID – Spain’s Acciona Energia said Thursday it won contracts for the engineering, construction and provision of turbines for two wind farms in Mexico.

The contracts for the projects, which are worth nearly $650 million, also cover a 20-year operating period, Acciona Energia said.

The contracts were signed with a company formed by Cemex, Fisterra Energy and private investors, the Spanish company said in a statement.

Construction of the wind farms, which will each have 126 MW of generating capacity, is to begin in the second quarter of this year, with commercial operation expected to start in the second quarter of 2016.

The wind farms are being built in General Bravo, a city in the northern state of Nuevo Leon, and will have 84 3-MW turbines each.

Acciona Energia said the contracts would allow it to diversify its operations in Mexico, expanding its role as a supplier of products and services.

Cemex, which developed the project, said it would oversee construction and manage the wind farms without controlling the facilities.

The Mexican cement giant has a 5 percent minority stake in the project.

The project’s capital structure is 75 percent debt and 25 percent equity, Cemex said in a statement.