The president of AES Panama, Miguel Bolinaga, said that the work is going “at a good pace”

A large natural gas-based electric generator with an investment of 1.1 billion will start testing at the end of 2023, the project managers, AES Panama and InterEnergy Group, reported on Wednesday.

The Gatún Generator project, located on Telfers Island, Caribbean province of Colón, which will produce 670 megawatts (MW) using natural gas as a source, was visited this Wednesday by the

will be carrying out tests and by March 2024 it will send clean and environmentally friendly energy to the Panamanian electricity system,” an official statement reported.

Alongside the Gatún Generator project, other secondary ones are being developed: the expansion of the AES de Colón plant to supply the natural gas, the gas pipeline that will transport it and a transmission line.

The manager of Gatún Generator, Esteban

The investment of the Gatun power plant reaches 1.1 billion dollars; that of the expansion of the AES power plant in Colon 120 million dollars, and that of line 3 of transmission $89 million, said the government statement.

The manager of the state Electric Transmission Company (Etesa), Carlos Mosquera, said that line 3, which is built from the substation of Sabanitas to the

The Gatún Generator project is in charge of the Gas Panama Energy Group, made up of InterEnergy Group (51%) and AES Panama (49%),” the Panamanian Government said last March, when it started its construction.

The Gatún Generator will replace the thermal plants that have already been removed from the Panamanian electricity system, moving towards a much cleaner and more efficient energy matrix, the Government said