The purpose of this project is to recover a source of renewable power generation by building a new run-of-river hydroelectric plant at the site of a hydropower plant that was destroyed by a landslide.  The new plant will use part of the hydraulic infrastructure that was left undamaged.  The reconstruction will bring back into operation a hydropower facility that will displace electricity and GHG emissions currently produced by thermal fossil fuel-burning facilities (particularly by units fired with natural gas) within Bolivia’s National Interconnected System (SIN).
The project will have an installed capacity of 6.2 megawatts (MW) with an electricity generation potential of 36.3 Gigawatts hour (GWh) per year. The project is expected to displace 45 560 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) per year.