Toshiba Internationa Corporation (ITC) has signed contracts for three 324 MW (MVA) hydropower generators to be delivered to Isagen, a Colombian power generation company. TOshiba is to work on the new contracts in partnership with Mitsui Plant Systems.

All three generators are to be installed at the Sogamoso hydrpower plant in the state of Santander, in Colombia. This will not be Toshiba's first generator supply contract in Colombia. The company has already supplied 35 generators to the country in the past, so there is no lack of experience and track record. Delivery of the generators is expected by January 2012, with the hydropower plant to be commissioned by the end of 2013.

Colombia has big energy development plans, which involve an increase in power generation capacity by about 3000 MW over the next decade, with more than 2400 MW expected to come from the country's abundant hydrpower resources.

[source: Toshiba Internation Corporation]