EcoEléctrica is a
Puerto Rican energy corporation headquartered in
Peñuelas, Puerto Rico
Peñuelas (, ) is a town and municipality in Puerto Rico located in the Peñuelas Valley on the southern coast of the island, south of Adjuntas, east of Guayanilla, west of Ponce and north of the Caribbean Sea. Peñuelas is spread over 12 barr ...
. Since the 2000s, EcoElectrica has the exclusive right to ship
liquefied natural gas
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the vol ...
to Puerto Rico.
[''GasNatural Fenosa: Pide exención contributiva al Gobierno.''](_blank)
Omar Alfonso. 18 May 2011. Page 6. La Perla del Sur. Ponce, Puerto Rico. Year 29, Issue 1433. Retrieved 23 January 2012. Its main shareholder is
GasNatural Fenosa.
Jason Rodríguez Grafal. La Perla del Sur. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 30 December 2013. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
History
In June 2008, EcoEléctrica started the environmental impact assessment of the LNG terminal modification project, including construction and operation of natural gas pipeline facilities.[
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Activities
It owns and operates a liquefied natural gas
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the vol ...
regasification terminal with a storage tank of 160,000 cubic meters in Punta Guayanilla, Peñuelas. The power generated by EcoEléctrica is transmitted to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA; Spanish: ''LUMA'', ''AEE'') was an electric power company owned by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico responsible for electricity generation, power distribution, and power transmission on the island. ...
(PREPA) operated power grid. Steam generated by the waste heat
Waste heat is heat that is produced by a machine, or other process that uses energy, as a byproduct of doing work. All such processes give off some waste heat as a fundamental result of the laws of thermodynamics. Waste heat has lower utility ...
from exhaust gasses is used in both a Toshiba-supplied steam turbine and a desalination plant.
See also
* Puerto Rico – Virgin Islands pipeline
References
External links
Corporate website
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Electric power companies of Puerto Rico
Natural gas companies of Puerto Rico
Liquefied natural gas terminals
Water supply and sanitation in Puerto Rico
2008 establishments in Puerto Rico
Peñuelas, Puerto Rico
Energy companies established in 2008