The CFE power plant at Puerto San Carlos BCS burns fuel oil. Fuel oil and bunker oil are the same and it is burned both in power plants and in ships.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_oil
There has been talk in PSC for a few years now about how the local power plant is being converted to burn LNG and as the poster noted above the
contracts for the LNG terminal near La Paz and pipelines to deliver LNG have been awarded after a RFP process played out. Timelines that have been
published are inaccurate. Construction starts mañana.
https://www.naturalgasintel.com/new-fortress-energy-inks-lng...
The construction of the LNG facility, conversion of existing power plants to LNG, upgrading and adding to transmission lines to provide power for
increased mining operations in Baja will be welcome by most citizens of Baja.
Of course water will be the real key to the growth which is sure to follow these infrastructure improvements. Cleaner, readily available power will
be a plus in the RO water which might be produced someday and in the distribution of existing water, ie aquifers, especially from the Vizcaino
aquifers.
My friends in PSC are hopeful and and happy for these proposed changes. La Paz really needs cleaner power as the plant is close to town and prevailing
winds for much of the year remind people just how close and just how dirty that plant is.
At least in PSC the prevailing winds take the exhaust smoke away from town and the stacks provide a navigation landmark for local mariners and are a
pretty good wind speed and direction indicator when fishing locally. |
