Proyectos Representativos

- Guavio
- Miel I
- Salvajina
- Porce III
- Boruca
- Tablachaca
- Chivor
- Calima
- Pajarito
- Río Frío
- Mesitas

Guavio

Guavio Hydroelectric Power Plant in Colombia, some 120 kms northeast of Bogota, in the Administrative Department of Cundinamarca, spans between the Municipalities of Ubalá, where the dam is located, and Mambita, where the underground powerhouse is located. The Power Plant consists in the harnesing for hydropower of the lower Guavio River and comprises the following components designed by Ingetec.

INGETEC undertook the designs for all of the project’s structures, in their prefeasibility, feasibility, bidding and detail design stages. Additionally, INGETEC was commissioned with the technical advisement during construction.

Main characteristics:

• Rockfill dam: 243 m high, impounding a 950 Mm³ reservoir. The average flow of the river at the dam site is 62 m³/s.

• Diversion tunnel 1 160 m long.

• Spillway: an ogee-type structure controlled by radial gates and two 600-m long tunnels.

• Two tunnels, 2 330 m and 2 190 m long, respectively, diverting the Batatas and Chivor Rivers towards the Guavio resevoir.

• Upper headrace tunnel 13 315 m long.

• Surge chamber: horseshoe-shaped expansion gallery type, 8.4 m in diameter, 319 m long.

• Pressure shaft 545 m deep.

• Lower headrace tunnel 1 430 m long.

• Tailrace tunnel 5 260 long.

• Underground powerhouse 234 m long, 17 m wide, 35 m high.

• Eight Pelton turbines, 200 MW each, for a total installed capacity of 1 600 MW.

• Nominal head: 1 100 m.

• Transformer cavern 201 m long, 14 m wide, 21 m high.

• Twenty-four monophase power transformers.

• 230 kV transmission lines, 127 km long.

Client:

Empresa de Energía de Bogotá – EEB (Bogota Electric Power Company)

Location:

Boyaca, Colombia.