Wärtsilä’s 200 MW power plant to provide critical grid balancing and back-up power to the national grid in Colombia
Wärtsilä Corporation, Trade press release, 8 March 2021 at 12 PM EETWärtsilä’s 200 MW flexible baseload power plant project in Córdoba Province in Colombia proceeds despite the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract was placed in June 2020 by Termotesorito, a joint-venture enterprise between private utility companies Celsia and Proelectrica, and the natural gas provider Canacol. The order is valued at approximately EUR 100 million. For contractual reasons Wärtsilä announced the sale earlier with limited information in a press