The plant will have an installed capacity of 400MW and will consist of two open cycle turbines.
The concession contract signed with the Ministry of Energy & Mines covers a 20-year period.
The investment in the project is estimated at $200m and the power station is expected to start operation in 2013.
Through EnerSur, GDF Suez currently has a generation capacity of 1,040MW and its production park includes thermal (ChilcaUno, Ilo 1 and 2) and hydro (Yuncan) power plants.
The new development and GDF Suez’s two recent projects, the Quitaracsa I hydroelectric power plant and the conversion of the ChilcaUno thermal power plant to combined-cycle, will bring the company’s total installed capacity to 1,822MW by the end of 2014.
