The contract involves the supply of 8x300MW Francis turbines, with their respective speed regulators and cylindrical gates, and eight generators with excitation systems and bus bar. alstom will be the sole turbine and generator supplier for the project. The first four generating units will be ready by 2018 and the other four will be ready by 2021.
All equipment will be produced by the Alstom Taubaté unit in São Paulo state, Brazil, a hydro power generation equipment factory dedicated to the Brazilian and South American markets, as well as exports worldwide.
‘Thanks to this new project, Alstom will consolidate its leadership in Latin America and worldwide for large hydro power plants. In Colombia, the Ituango project represents the second success in a row after manufacturing equipment for El Quimbo hydro plant. Ituango power plant comes to confirm our commitment to improve national infrastructure and develop power generation capacity in the region,’ states Marcos Costa, Alstom’s vice president for global power sales in Latin America.
