Sogamoso dam
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| Coordinates | 7 ° 6 '3 " N , 73 ° 24' 24" W | ||||||||
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| Lock type: | CFR dam | ||||||||
| Construction time: | 2009-2014 | ||||||||
| Height of the barrier structure : | 190 m | ||||||||
| Crown length: | 345 m | ||||||||
| Crown width: | 9 m | ||||||||
| Power plant output: | 820 MW | ||||||||
| Operator: | ISAGEN | ||||||||
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| Water surface | 70 km² | ||||||||
| Storage space | 4800 million m³ | ||||||||
| Design flood : | 17th 100 m³ / s | ||||||||
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The Sogamoso Dam is a dam with a CFR dam on the Río Sogamoso , a right tributary of the Río Magdalena , in northern Colombia , about 30 km west of Bucaramanga in the Santander department and 285 km north of Bogotá . The main purpose of the dam is the use of hydropower . The power plant has an installed capacity of 820 MW, which increases Colombia's generator capacity by 10 percent.
Construction of the dam began in February 2009. In January 2012, the project was 49.5 percent complete. The dam, including the hydroelectric power plant , costing the equivalent of US $ 1.74 billion is owned by ISAGEN. INGETEC planned the dam in the 1990s and Impregilo received the building contract. The plan is to produce 5056 GWh of electricity annually.
The generators went into operation at the end of 2014.
The 190 m high dam dams a lake with an area of around 69.60 km² and a volume of 4.8 billion m³ of water. There are three 273 MW generators in the power plant that are driven by Francis turbines . The flood relief with four radial locks is on the left bank. It was designed for a discharge rate of 17,100 m³ / s. There were protests by residents against the dam because 160 families have to be relocated and the habitat of miners in the future reservoir and of fishermen downstream will be negatively affected. Relocation and construction of new bridges and roads will cost $ 202 million. A 100 m wide protection zone will be set up around the reservoir.
See also
- List of the largest dams on earth
- List of the largest reservoirs on earth
- List of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world
- List of power plants in Colombia
- List of dams in the world (Colombia)
Web links
- Sogamoso Hydroelectric Project website of the operator ISAGEN, 23 November 2012
- Proyecto Hidroeléctrico Sogamoso Website of the operator ISAGEN, 23 November 2012
- Project details November 23, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] , James Bargent, The Hidrosogamoso Dam: Communities pay the high price of hydro-electric power in Colombia, Upside Down World, January 31, 2012, accessed November 23, 2012
- ↑ Sogamoso Hydroelectric Project , ISAGEN SAESP, called on November 23, 2012
- ↑ Sogamoso Hydroelectric Plant ( Memento of the original from August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Impreglio, accessed November 23, 2012
- ↑ Hidrosogamoso comenzó generación plena de energía. El Tiempo , December 23, 2014, accessed April 6, 2015 (Spanish).
- ↑ PROYECTO HIDROELÉCTRICO SOGAMOSO. (PDF; 1.4 MB; p. 5) ISAGEN, accessed on April 6, 2015 (Spanish).
- ↑ Sogamoso ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , INGETEC SA accessed on November 23, 2012
- ↑ Isagen to spend US 202 million on Sogamoso hydro project mitigation projects in Colombia , HydroWorld, July 27, 2011, accessed March 29, 2012
- ↑ COLOMBIA: Assassination follows Minga gathering at Sogamoso River Bridge , Christian Peacemaker Teams, November 27, 2009, accessed November 23, 2012
