Power supplier Pampa Energia purchased the first LMS100 turbine for its Pampa Guemes project expansion in the province of Chubut, Argentina. Following this purchase, Inversora Ingentis, a special purpose company created by gas distributor Emgasud and Pampa Holding, purchased two LMS100 units as part of a 500MW development project that will ultimately include 400MW of thermal and 100MW of wind power.
GE Energy said that Argentina faces record high peak power demands. Private power generators, like Ingentis and Pampa, are responding to this growth with power generation systems that can be quickly dispatched to provide time of day demands to meet growing industrial and residential needs. The company claims that the LMS100 is the ideal power generation system to meet these requirements.
The Chilean power company Colbun has also purchased the gas turbine unit. The turbine’s fast 50MW per minute ramp rate will complement Colbun’s hydro generation in meeting power demands quickly.
All four units, which would be manufactured in GE’s Houston, Texas facility, are rated at 44% efficiency. The Pampa Guemes unit is expected to ship during the fourth quarter of 2007, the Ingentis units during the fourth quarter of 2008 and the Colbun unit is set to ship by the end of 2007.
