SOGAMOSO Hydroelectric Project 820 MW
Sogamoso Hydropower Project includes a concrete-face rockfill dam on the Sogamoso River near Bucaramanga in northern Colombia.
The hydropower plant has an installed capacity of 820 MW which increased Colombia's generating capacity by 10%. Construction of the dam began in February 2009 and the first hydro turbines-generator was commissioned in December 2014.
List of main equipment:
- 3 penstocks
- 4 spillway radial gates
- 3 power intake gates
- 1 bottom outlet steel lining
- 1 bottom outlet radial gate
- 1 bottom outlet slide gate
- 3 draft tube gates
- Stoplogs, Trashracks and Cranes
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