Ensuring a reliable and efficient electricity supply in Colombia

25 years of a successful collaboration

This collaboration, which began in 1998, has become one of the longest partnerships in Wärtsilä's history.

The 26 MW Caracolito power plant, located near Ibagué, Tolima, operates with five Wärtsilä 18-cylinder engines, model 34SG, running on natural gas, ensuring a reliable and efficient electricity supply for the daily operations of the cement plant.

The benefits of this partnership include operation services, preventive and predictive maintenance, spare parts logistics management and technical support, allowing Cemex to focus on cement production, optimizing performance and ensuring financial predictability of O&M costs.

Who	Cemex Colombia
What	26 MW power plant
Where	Ibagué, Tolima; Colombia
How	Wärtsilä 18V34SG

This is what we achieved

MW of electrical output

years World Class O&M service

hours running a day at full baseload

This project provides us with the electricity supply for the entire operation and allows us to have a certain autonomy and availability in our equipment, at all times.
Jonatan Salamanca, Regional Director of Energy at Cemex

Having the support of Wärtsilä to provide us with energy for the operation of our equipment guarantees the effectiveness of production at our plant.
Jose Carlos Cruz, Caracolito Power Plant Director at Cemex

How we did it

Challenge

Guarantee reliable and efficient support
Need for efficient baseload
Back client production in accordance with the established key performance indicators

Solution

Top efficiency with the Flecicycle technology
Trustworthy and valued lifecycle solutions
World class O&M services

Benefit

Uninterrupted generation
Reliability to the operation of the production machinery.

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The main details

Customer	Cemex Colombia
Type	Wärtsilä 18V34SG flexible power plant
Where	Ibagué, Tolima; Colombia
Total output	26 MW
Fuel	Natural gas
Scope	Engineering, procurement, construction (EPC)
Delivery	1998