La Vírgen hydroelectric power station
| La Vírgen hydroelectric power station | |||
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| Coordinates | 11 ° 9 ′ 39 ″ S , 75 ° 25 ′ 32 ″ W | ||
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 Peru
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| place | Junín region | ||
| Waters | Rio Tarma | ||
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| Type | Run-of-river power plant | ||
| power | 84 MW | ||
| operator | La Vírgen SAC | ||
| Start of operations | 2017/2018 | ||
| turbine | 3 Pelton turbines | ||
The La Vírgen hydropower plant (Spanish: Central Hidroeléctrica La Vírgen ) is located on the Río Tarma in central Peru . The power plant is located in the San Ramón district in the Chanchamayo province of the Junín administrative region . The operator of the plant is La Vírgen SAC
The La Vírgen hydropower plant is the bottom of a power plant cascade on the Río Tarma. It is located on the left bank of the river 9 km west-southwest of the city of San Ramón on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Central Cordillera at an altitude of 1100 m . The power plant went into operation between the end of 2017 and mid-2018. The Brazilian company Alupar was involved in the construction of the power plant.
power plant
The above-ground nacelle houses three vertically directed Pelton turbines with a nominal output of 28.81 MW each. The hydroelectric power plant uses a gross drop height of 345.9 m and is designed for a design flow designed from 30,45 m³ / s. The water is fed back into the river below the power station. The substation is located about 400 m southwest of the machine house .
Weir
About 6.5 km upstream there is a weir ( ⊙ ) on the Río Tarma with several settling basins on the left bank. The weir is located directly below the confluence of the Quebrada Guayabal. On the opposite bank is the Yanango hydropower plant . The turbine water from the Yanango power plant, supplemented by the water diverted at the weir, is fed to the power plant via an approximately 5 km long supply tunnel that runs through the left slope of the valley, through an adjoining pressure tunnel and a horizontal pressure pipe.
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