Tocopilla Power Station
{{#badges:CoalSwarm|Navbar-Chilecoal}}Tocopilla Power Station is an operating coal-fired plant in Tocopilla, Antofagasta Region II, Chile.
Contents
Location
The satellite photo below shows the plant in Tocopilla, Antofagasta Region II, Chile.
Background
The plant is owned by Engie and operated by E-CL (Electroandina).[1]
Planned Phase-out
In February 2018 Chilean president Michelle Bachelet announced that Chile will phase out coal-fired plants,[2] and Engie announced that it will close its coal-fired plants in Chile.[3] Engie had previously announced that it would try to sell the plants to new operators instead of closing them.[3] In April 2018 Engie announced that it was seeking permission to disconnect Tocopilla Units 12 & 13 from the grid and that shutting them down would take 12-36 months.[4] In June 2018 Engie added Tocopilla 14 to its scheduled closure list.[5]
In June 2019 the Chilean government announced that the plant would be retired by 2024 as part of a plan to reduce the country's annual CO2 emissions from the current 30 million tonnes (tons) to four million by 2024.[6] Unit 12 and Unit 13 were retired in June 2019. In December 2019 Engie announced that Unit 14 and Unit 15 would be retired in January 2022 instead of a previously planned date of May 2024.[7]
Project Details
- Sponsor: E-CL (Electroandina)
- Parent company: Engie
- Location: Tocopilla, II Region de Antofagasta, Chile
- Coordinates: -22.0971,-70.2121 (exact)
- Status:
- Unit 12: Retired (2019); originally commissioned in 1983
- Unit 13: Retired (2019); originally commissioned in 1985
- Unit 14: Operating (1987)
- Unit 15: Operating (1990)
- Gross Capacity:
- Unit 12: 85.3 MW
- Unit 13: 85.5 MW
- Unit 14: 136.4 MW
- Unit 15: 130.25 MW
- Type: Subcritical
- Projected in service:
- Coal Type: Bituminous
- Coal Source:
- Source of financing:
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ Tocopilla Thermal Power Plant Chile, Global Energy Obervatory, accessed June 2018
- ↑ Chile declares start of coal power phase-out, Climate Change News, Feb. 1, 2018
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ahora sí: Trasnacional ENGIE cerraría termoeléctricas Tocopilla, Andina y Hornitos, El Ciudadano, Mar. 29, 2018
- ↑ Engie prepara el cierre de dos nuevas unidades a carbón y proyecta invertir US$ 1.000 millones en renovables, Fundación Terram, Apr. 14, 2018
- ↑ Announce the closure of two coal-fired thermoelectric plants in Tocopilla, Electricidad, Jun. 8, 2018
- ↑ Chile to close eight coal-fired stations by 2024, IEEFA, Jun., 2019
- ↑ Engie, AES to retire 674 MW of coal capacity in Chile earlier than agreed, Renewables Now, Dec. 10, 2019
