2024-06-26 19:20:36
ENERGY
Branches, rocks and rubbish carried by the present proceed to achieve the floodgates of the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric plant. Since Sunday the sixteenth, the move of the Coca River reached most ranges.
The technicians measured 3,500 cubic meters per second (m3/s), when the plant’s assortment capability is just 222 m3/s.
“At Coca Codo Sinclair the sediments reached 10 thousand elements per million, once they usually function with ranges lower than 600 and once they exit of operation from 1,000 to 1,200, however by no means to extremes like what occurred the opposite day,” defined the minister. Roberto Luque.
Since that day, the floodgates have been closed because of the particles that comes with the river and impacts the techniques if it isn’t correctly filtered.
Massive objects are stopped by immense metal grates. What worries the authorities are the sediments: sand and small stones which can be within the water and harm the turbine wheels and electromechanical tools.
The quantity of sediment on Sunday exceeded 10 instances the utmost capability that the sand entice system can course of, so operations have been stopped.
This Tuesday the 18th, the degrees dropped and that allowed the floodgates to open.
Coca Codo Sinclair is at the moment working with seven of its eight generators; one is present process scheduled upkeep. The ability era is 930 megawatts (MW), whereas its most capability is 1,500 MW. / El Telégrafo