The new station, which will produce 222 megawatts in its development stage, required investment of $171 million USD from a credit granted by the Central Bank of Bolivia.
Located 23 kilometers north from the city of Santa Cruz, the mentioned station will guarantee power supply to more than 1,000 companies that will be set up in the new Latin American Industrial Park, the largest in Bolivia and the region, according to a press release by the municipal city hall.
The Warnes thermoelectric station is part of the Government power-generation plan, which tries to produce at least 2,250 megawatts until the middle of 2018.
In the next three years, after adding three other turbines and installing technology with a combined cycle, the generation capacity of the Warnes thermoelectric station could increase up to 500 megawatts and will increase thermoelectricity in the country in 65 percent.
President Evo Morales, whose main motto in his reelection campaign last year was turning Bolivia into an energy-generating center in South America, insisted on generating electricity by any means, including resources as gas, putting forward that exporting electricity is more feasible than the mentioned fuel.
In his message to the nation on August 6, 2014, Morales highlighted that one of the first goals to Bolivia was exporting energy to the region up to 1,000 megawatts by 2020.
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