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Starting next October 31, maintenance of the Cartagena Spec regasification plant will begin. It will last five days, that is, it will go until November 4, 2024.
This maintenance is carried out annually on the port infrastructure that receives, stores and transforms the liquefied natural gas (LNG) from liquid to gaseous state that the country’s main thermal power plants acquire on the international market to support the generation of electrical energy.
With the above, the Tebsa and Termocandelaria thermal plants, which are the main companies that depend on Spec, complied with the order for said maintenance.
However, Tebsa indicated that it will keep its nine units available, with a contribution capacity of 911 megawatts to the National Interconnected System (SIN), which will be subject to the availability of gas that can be obtained for the operation of its plants, with the objective of maximizing energy availability during regasification plant maintenance.
How do power guilds take care of Spec?
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Given this decision, some unions indicated that the plants that depend on Spec are already looking for the fuel that they will not have during those five days in the secondary market.
“Plants that are already looking for that fuel in the secondary market during that weekend, given that they cannot access the primary one because there is no surplus supply,” said Alejandro Castañeda, executive director of the Colombian Association of Generators (Andeg).
In addition, he highlighted that along with the maintenance of the regasification plant, the Termocandelaria plant, which has 564 megawatts of capacity, will carry out one for its part the same weekend.
Among the strategies that consumers who depend on Spec Termobarranquilla (Tebsa) have will maintain its operation with a plant with 910 megawatts of capacity and Termoflores, from Prime Energy, with 610 megawatts of capacity.
“In addition, the rest will be generated with other thermal plants, some that use liquid fuels, and the surplus will have to come from a greater use of water from the reservoirs, for that weekend,” added Castañeda.
Although the regulation already allows gas to be sold from the regasification plant for the regulated market (homes and small businesses), to date it has not been needed, but in 2025, with the deficit alerts, this option could occur.
In turn, Sandra Fonseca, president of Asoenergía, pointed out that although the thermal plants herald some peace, during maintenance Colombia will not be able to import gas.
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“We are confirming that there will be a disconnection due to the maintenance of Spec and we will not have the possibility of importing gas into the country during that time, we see the manifestation of two important thermal plants that will not be able to generate if they do not get gas” , said.
In addition, he pointed out that the other option to generate energy is to use water from reservoirs to generate it.
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2024-10-19 16:44:00
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