The installation GE’s gas engines is part of a major expansion of the site’s existing landfill-gas-to-energy plant.
The landfill is a municipal solid waste operation and it receives about 60% of solid waste from Santiago.
The 8.4MW plant expansion known as Lomas Los Colorados II features six of GE’s 1.4MW ecomagination-qualified J420 Jenbacher units, which will be deployed adjacent to seven GE Jenbacher gas engines already at the site.
GE expects the new Jenbacher units to enter commercial service between this year and 2014, in line with landfill gas production.
Combined, the 13 landfill gas-fueled engines are expected to generate a total of 18MW of renewable power, enough to support the needs of about 75,000 homes in Chile.
Generadora Trasandina (GTSA) delivered design and engineering support for the initial phase of the project and installed the Jenbacher gas engines, and it will also own the units during the next ten years.
GTSA is renting them to the end user who has a purchase option available during the contract period.
GTSA will operate the units on behalf of KDM Energía under the ten-year agreement also covering maintenance services.
