EXPERIENCE

LICAN HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT

Client: Inversiones Candelaria Limitada.

Location: Lago Puyehue, Región de Los Lagos.

Project Description

The client developed the Lican run-of-the-river power plant—installed power of 18 MW—in order to inject clean energy to the Central Interconnected System (SIC),

Our Participation

We performed the Environmental Management of the project, which consisted of developing the Environmental Impact Study (EIS), have it approved by the corresponding national environmental authority (CONAMA) and prepare a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) document destined to be submitted to the executive board of the Kyoto Protocol in order to qualify for carbon credit trading. This environmental study was approved by CONAMA on December 2004, granting the corresponding Environmental License.