The Huacata Hydroelectric Project consists of the following elements: regulation chamber, diversion channel, desander, load chamber, penstock, and powerhouse.
The Huacata plant turbines water from the Huacata reservoir, located on the Quebrada Negra River, diverted through an existing intake tower via a tunnel.
This tunnel ends in the regulation chamber, which is the first facility in the project. The regulation chamber transfers the flows to the diversion channel, which ends in a desander that discharges water into the load chamber. From the load chamber, the penstock transports the flow to the Pelton turbine of the plant, located on the right bank of the Corana River.
To meet the irrigation and water supply demands downstream of the plant, about 800 meters from the plant, a compensation weir is designed to fulfill this demand when the plant is offline.
The installed nominal capacity is 10.66 MW, and the design flow rate is 2.40 m³/s. The projected annual generation is 16.72 GWh.
