The Steam Power Plant of Integrated Gasification in Combined Cycle (GICC) of ELCOGAShas gotten, in 2009, the best historic record from functioning in mode, fitting 5,444 hours, fulfilling the permanent improving objective in the commercial exploitation of the Main Station in this way.
The company has closed the year with an increment of the 18 percent in her production, in relation to the data of the last five years, getting to 19,354 GWh of total output accumulated, of the ones that 13,002 GWh have been gotten of coal like IGCC.
The following objective that has marked the Society ELCOGAS it is getting a productive improvement from the 20 percent with horizon 2016, as well as the complete autonomy, so much technique like economic.
In your constant worry for the mitigation of the climatic change and the future of the electric generation, ELCOGAS keeps on developing your Investment Plan in Investigation successfully, Development and Innovation based in the capture of CO2, and the diversification of fuels and of products. In this sense you are finalizing the installation that it will be the first of sets up, level international, of capture of CO2 and H2's production, that you will enter bathroom integrated in a commercial GICC.
In the line from the foregoing, ELCOGAS next to Endesa, Acciona, Red Eléctrica de España, Orange and the rest of companies that they form departs from the Program Acción CO2, they have presented recently in Madrid, the new commitment acquired by the one that 2009 with a number of 18,904 tons of saving of CO2 compromised in front of the 8,305 ones belonging to 2008 have closed.