Uruguay roundup: Hydropower plant overhaul oversight, solar PV plant construction tenders
Consultancy tender
Uruguayan state utility UTE launched a tender to contract a consultancy to oversee an overhaul of the Rincón de Baygorria hydroelectric power plant.
Bids for the consultancy work are due by July 1, according to documents published by the company.
A consortium comprising Saceem and Andritz was awarded the contract to carry out the actual renovation work at the 108MW plant.
Work is due to get underway this year, UTE has said previously. Estimated outlay is US$60mn and geared to extending the plant’s useful life by 60 years.
Click here for more information
Solar tender
Bids for a contract to carry out construction and assembly work on UTE’s planned Punta del Tigre solar PV plant are due June 24.
With installed capacity of 25MW, Punta del Tigre is earmarked for San José department. Bids were originally due May 22.
A previous tendering process for a solar park in Punta del Tigre was launched in 2021.
UTE has previously said it would launch this year tenders for solar PV parks with required investment of around US$100mn in San José and Cerro Largo departments. One is Punta del Tigre.
Uruguay is working to increase electrification of the economy, with grid connection, distributed generation, electromobility and smart meters key pillars.
In 2022, UTE announced a five-year spending pot of US$1.38bn.
Uruguay typically obtains about 98% of its electricity from hydropower, wind, biomass and solar PV.
Subscribe to the leading business intelligence platform in Latin America with different tools for Providers, Contractors, Operators, Government, Legal, Financial and Insurance industries.
News in: Electric Power (Uruguay)
Uruguay hydropower: Distributed generation seen as the remaining option
The country leverages hydropower assets to mitigate the intermittency of its large fleet of renewables plants and ease reliance on expensive liquid...
Challenger Energy identifies ‘three sizeable prospects’ offshore Uruguay
In other news, Argentina greenlights an offshore exploration project, Wintershall Dea says an Argentine gas platform project is due to begin produc...
Subscribe to Latin America’s most trusted business intelligence platform.
Other projects in: Electric Power (Uruguay)
Get critical information about thousands of Electric Power projects in Latin America: what stages they're in, capex, related companies, contacts and more.
- Project: Kiyú wind farm
- Current stage:
- Updated:
3 years ago
- Project: Punta del Tigre combined cycle gas plant
- Current stage:
- Updated:
4 years ago
- Project: Tacuarembó-Melo transmission line
- Current stage:
- Updated:
5 years ago
- Project: Solar Casablanca and Giacote
- Current stage:
- Updated:
1 year ago
- Project: El Naranjal photovoltaic park
- Current stage:
- Updated:
6 years ago
- Project: Campo Palomas Wind Farm
- Current stage:
- Updated:
6 years ago
- Project: La Jacinta photovoltaic plant
- Current stage:
- Updated:
7 years ago
- Project: Vientos de Pastorale wind farm
- Current stage:
- Updated:
7 years ago
- Project: Colonia Arias wind farm
- Current stage:
- Updated:
7 years ago
- Project: El Libertador Wind Farm
- Current stage:
- Updated:
7 years ago
Other companies in: Electric Power (Uruguay)
Get critical information about thousands of Electric Power companies in Latin America: their projects, contacts, shareholders, related news and more.
- Company: ABB Uruguay S.A (ABB Uruguay)
-
ABB Uruguay S.A. is the Uruguayan subsidiary of Swiss multinational ABB Limited, providing technology and automation services for the electric, hydrocarbon and petrochemical sec...
- Company: Techint Uruguay
-
Techint Compañía Técnica Internacional S.A.C.I. (Techint Uruguay) operates as a local unit of the Techint Engineering and Construction group, which developed its first project i...
- Company: Ingener Sucursal Argentina
- Company: Gas Sayago S.A. (GSSA)
-
Gas Sayago S.A. (GSSA) is a joint venture between Uruguay's state power company UTE and state oil company Ancap, formed to develop the offshore LNG regasification plant GNL del ...
- Company: SEG Ingeniería
- Company: Generación Eólica Minas S.A. (GEMSA)
-
Generación Eólica Minas S.A. (GEMSA) is a subsidiary of French firm Akuo Energy. The company was created in 2011 to develop the Minas wind farm project awarded by the government...
- Company: Fidemar S.A. (Fidemar)
- Company: Parque Eólico Kiyú S.A. (Parque Eólico Kiyú)
-
Parque Eólico Kiyú S.A., formerly Cobra Ingeniería Uruguay S.A., is the local subsidiary of Spanish firm Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios S.A., which is part of the Spanish const...
Subscribe to the leading business intelligence platform in Latin America with different tools for Providers, Contractors, Operators, Government, Legal, Financial and Insurance industries.
