Invenergy’s transmission line in Uruguay
Invenergy has announced commercial operations have commenced on its high-voltage Tealov Cardal transmission line in Uruguay.
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Uruguay: Cardal is Invenergy’s third project in Uruguay. The company already owns the 65 MW La Jacinta Solar Farm and 70 MW Campo Palomas Wind Farm. Cardal encompasses a new 55 km 500 kV high-voltage transmission line, a new 20 km 150 kV transmission line, a new 500 kV substation, and accompanying infrastructure. The line connects to the Punta del Tigre substation and a 150 kV high-voltage line in Salto, and the project also included enhancements to increase interconnection flows between the departments of Florida and San Jose.
The line is important to Uruguay’s clean power goals and is operated by the Uruguayan state-owned power company, Administración Nacional de Usinas y Trasmisiones Eléctricas (UTE), under a 30-year lease agreement. Currently, 98% of the country’s electric generation is produced from clean power, mostly hydropower and wind energy.
With this project, Invenergy has now contracted or entered into service 6,475 linear km of transmission and collector lines, including major projects throughout the Americas. In Latin America, this includes a 44 km 230 kV double circuit transmission line from Acajutla to Ahuachapan in El Salvador, connecting its 378 MW LNG-to-power Energía del Pacifico project with the Central American Electrical Interconnection System (SIEPAC).
Source: T&D World
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