The project, slated for completion in 2025, marks a significant milestone in Guatemala's energy landscape as it introduces the country's first mid-scale power plant operating on natural gas.
Guatemala has 69 utility-scale power plants in operation, with a total capacity of 3421.5 MW. This data is a derivitive set of data gathered by source mentioned below. Global Energy Observatory/Google/KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm/Enipedia/World Resources Institute/database.earth
In a pioneering move for the region, the power plant will utilize locally produced natural gas. This departure from imported coal, diesel, or heavy fuel oil commonly used in Guatemala underscores the commitment to environmental sustainability.
According to the International Hydropower Association (IHA)'s 2017 report on global hydropower status, Guatemala ranks 20th worldwide in the new hydropower installed during 2016 with 163MW capacity added that year . Also the country ranks 6th in the Northern and Central America region with total installed power approximately 1154MW .
The solar photovoltaics (PV) was used in Libya back in the 1970s; the application areas power loads of small remote systems such as rural electrification systems, communication repeaters, cathodic protection for oil pipelines and water pumping (Asheibi et al., 2016).
A study performed by (Aldali and Ahwide, 2013) proposed analysis of installing a 50 MW solar photovoltaic power plant PV-grid connected with a tracking system in Libya. Solar PV modules of 200 W are used in that study due to its high conversion efficiency.
The potential and opportunities for solar PV in Libya have been assessed. Future prospective of exploiting solar PV has been drawn in Libya. The solar photovoltaic (PV) is one way of utilising incident solar radiation to produce electricity without carbon dioxide (CO2) emission.
(Aldali et al., 2011) presented a proposed design of a photovoltaic power plant based on Al-Kufra conditions. For the sake of friendly environmental effects and variation of the electricity generating mixture, it's also proposed that very large-scale photovoltaic plants of this kind be constructed in Libya.
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