E.On starts pumping electricity into the national power grid from San Roque

SAN ROQUE (Agencies) The Bahía de Algeciras Combined-cycle & Gas Turbine power center at Puente Mayorga began operating commercially on Monday, according to E.On. The €400million project involved repowering the 200-MW Unit-1 of the conventional Algeciras gas-fired plant and the second unit was retired. This makes the San Roque plant the company's most powerful in Spain. Tests have shown an output of 820 megawatts (plans were for 800), while the new plant has reduced sulphur dioxyde emissions by 98%, nitrogen dioxyde by 65% and particle concentration by 96% compared to the previous installation. There are 45 direct full time employees at the plant, although up to 700 worked on the renewal.