AEG Power Solutions says it has supplied equipment to secure the power supply for two turnkey co-generation plants in Altamira and Bajío, Mexico, being built by the Tamoin engineering firm for Iberdrola, a Spanish multinational electric utility company.

The projects will have a combined generation capacity of approximately 100 megawatts (MW).

Baijo cogeneration plant.The 3 phase output UPS (uninterruptible power supply) systems Protect 8 will equip both facilities. The company says in a statement that Protect 8 is a "double-conversion topology" UPS.

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Co-generation or combined heat and power (CHP) is a power station's ability to generate electricity and useful heat at the same time. For the same output of useful energy, cogeneration uses less fossil energy than traditional heat and power production.

In addition to supplying power for the two cities, the cogeneration plant in Altamira (in the state of Tamaulipas) will contribute to a chemical facility's reduced energy costs and in Bajío, (in the state of Querétaro), for a hygiene product manufacturing plant, by making them more energy efficient.

The Altamira cogeneration plant includes gas turbines and condensing steam turbines with two extractions. A total of 60 MW of power will be provided, broken down into 51 MW of power supplied by the gas turbine group and 9 MW supplied by a condensing steam turbine with low and medium pressure extractions.

Iberdrola's co-generation plant in Bajío in the city of San Juan del Río, Querétaro, is also a combined cycle plant with gas and condensing steam turbines with medium pressure extraction. The plant will generate up to 54.2 megawatts (MW) of power.

AEG Power Solutions supplies electronic power systems and solutions and offers products and services in the uninterrupted power supply and energy administration sectors.

Thanks to its distinctive expertise bridging both AC and DC power technologies and spanning the worlds of both conventional and renewable energy, the company creates innovative solutions for next generation distributed power generation.