The company said that the core objective of the modernization program was to increase the original thermal power of this electricity generation plant by 20%.
The revamping of the equipment and the plant facilities commenced in 2007 that enabled to extend the plant’s operating life to 40 years.
The capacity of each unit at the nuclear power plant now stands at 820MW.
Iberdrola Ingenieria (97%), which operates the plant along with Alstom Mexicana (3%), secured the contract to undertake this project in early 2007, for the sum of over $600m.
The terms of the contract included the tasks such as design, engineering, supply of equipment and materials, installation, assembly and testing for the power uprate at units 1 and 2 of this Mexican nuclear power plant.
