Enel Generación Costanera, formerly known as Central Costanera, is the largest electrical energy Company through thermal processes of Argentina.
It owns and operates a highly diversified plant composed by six conventional cycle monoblock units operated by steam, with an installed capacity of 1,138 MW of power and two Combined Cycle units, the first of 327 MW of power and the second of 859 MW of ISO gross power configured by two gas turbo generators and one steam turbo generator.
This way, on December 31, 2011, Enel Generación Costanera, with its 11 generators and 2,324 MW of capacity (*), reached a 7.9% share of the total installed power of the Interconnection Argentine System (SADI), with 50% of investments made in state-of-the-art technologies of the highest efficiency and reliability.
Enel Generación Costanera is strategically located in the city of Buenos Aires. This city, together with Greater Buenos Aires, requires about 40% of the total electricity produced in the country.
History
The plant was opened in 1963, but in 1992 Enel took over, at the time through Endesa de Chile.
Since that year, the new company has kept on growing and landed the ambitious programme of restoring the units and improving facilities to increase the levels of availability and strengthen the safety of the electrical energy supply, involving investments close to 200 million US dollars. With this effort, as well as with other activities of the sector, the country was able to avoid short term problems caused by energy shortages at the end of the 80s.
