Cartellone, among the finalists to expand Yacyretá

The Yacyretá hydroelectric power station has selected five consortiums of international companies for the construction of the extension works of the Aña Cuá dam. The offers will open on March 11, confirmed the executive director for Argentina of the binational company Martin Goerling.

The alliances of companies pre-selected by Yacyretá were: Salini Impregilo SpA-José Chediack S.a.i.c.-Itasa, Italy, Argentina and Paraguay respectively; International technical company Techint SACI-Benito Roggio and Hijos SA-Panedile Argentina S.a.i.c.f. and Benito Roggio e Hijos SA (Paraguay); José Cartellone Construcciones Civiles SA – J. Malucelli Constructora de Obras SA – Talavera Ortellado SA of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay; SACDE Argentine Company of Construction and Strategic Development SA-China Power Limited-CDD Construcciones SA., Argentina, China and Paraguay; and Aña Cuá ART, composed of Astaldi-Rovela-Tecnoedil, Italy, Argentina and Paraguay.

"This work is fundamental to consolidate Yacyretá's energy contribution to the whole country, and we are dealing with this process with absolute transparency and with the badurance that it will be a good thing." 39; a vital effort to improve the quality of life of all Argentines, "said Goerling today in a press release of the state company.

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On 16 April 2018, eight consortia submitted their proposals to the binational entity of Yacyretá (EBY), which was badyzed within the time limits set in the terms of the international call for tender n ° 670. by a working group composed of: representatives of Argentina and Paraguay.

With this project, EBY will specify the expansion of the Yacyretá hydropower plant by incorporating three Kaplan turbines in the Aña Cuá branch, with an installed capacity of 276 MW, 9% more than current production. from the plant. dam installed on the Paraná River at the altitude of the corrientes city of Ituzaingó.

The power to be installed to increase the production of Yacyretá includes the use of a flow of between 1,000 and 1,500 cubic meters per second in the arm where a landfill already exists and where a company seeks to carry out the necessary civil works at the installation of the turbines.

The project will be carried out "without it being necessary to increase the surface of the tank nor to build new dams, locks, dumps or removals", they said today at the time. EBY, where they indicated that "facilities will be incorporated to transfer the fish into the tank, nonexistent in the landfill". currently in operation. "