Wärtsilä wins 200 MW power plant contract in South America
Wärtsilä Corporation, Press release, 13 July 2020 at 3 pm EESTThe technology group Wärtsilä will supply a flexible baseload 200 MW power plant to a country in the Northern Andes. The flexibility of the efficient yet fast-starting Wärtsilä solution will provide the grid balancing capability that is essential with increasing amounts of intermittent wind and solar power generation entering the power systems. At the same time, it will serve as a capacity plant to back up the system in cases of shortage. The contract was signed in June. Commercial operation is scheduled to commence at the end