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Guri Hydroelectric Power Plant
The Guri hydroelectric power plant is situated 100km upstream of the Caroni River in Necuima Canyon in Orinoco, Venezuela. The power plant has an installed capacity of 10,200MW and is the third largest power plant in the world. Venezuelan...
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Ethanol Power Plant
On 19 January 2010, Brazil's state-owned company Petrobras launched the world's first ethanol-fired power plant. Situated in the city of Juiz de Fora, in the state of Minas Gerais, approximately 180km north of Rio de Janeiro,...
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Electrica Guacolda Power Plant
Electrica Guacolda is a coal-fired power plant located in the Isla Guacolda city of Huasco, approximately 700km north of Santiago. Constructed in the mid-1990s, the plant consists of three units with a fourth unit under construction, scheduled for delivery...
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Caruachi Hydroelectric Power Plant
All twelve turbine-generators have entered commercial service at the Caruachi hydroelectric plant, Venezuela. Units one and two came on line by July 2003. The twelfth unit opened in March 2006. The power plant is producing about...
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Belo Monte Hydroelectric Power Plant
The Belo Monte hydroelectric power plant is being built on the Xingu River in the Parรก state of Brazil. The project broke ground in March 2011 with the start of construction of the access roads. Upon...
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Atucha Nuclear Power Plant
The Atucha nuclear power plant site includes two units - Atucha-1 and Atucha-2. They are located in Lima, about 100 miles from Buenos Aries. Atucha-1 unit has a capacity of 335MW. Construction of the long delayed...
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Angra-3 PWR Nuclear
The 1,224MWe Angra-3 PWR nuclear reactor project is on again. The Brazilian Government has announced plans to complete the reactor, which will work alongside the other two at Angra, which is between Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. ...
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