• Submitted by: manso
• Business and Economy
• 10 / 06 / 2010

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Cuba’s basic industries ministries is seeking bids to convert one generating unit of the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes thermoelectric plant to natural gas, Granma reported.

The ministry plans to convert Block 3 of the Soviet-era power plant in Cienfuegos from fuel oil to natural gas. The 30-year old unit had been overhauled as recently as September 2008.

The conversion should be completed by 2012, according to power plant director José González Rodríguez. In the long term, the generator will be fueled with domestically produced gas, González said, according to a local TV station. For now, the natural gas will be shipped from Venezuela in liquid shape via tankers to the southern port and re-gasified at a plant that is currently under construction near the power plant.

Early last year, Japan’s Hitachi Thermo and Hydro Power Systems completed the $40 million renovation of Block 4, a fuel oil-powered generator at the 158-mw power plant in Cienfuegos.

Source: www.cubastandard.com/2010/10/04/government-seeking-bids-in-power-plant-c...