Generation

At AES, we provide diverse fuel technologies that are well-suited to the individual markets in which we operate. Our businesses share expertise in building and operating plants that use coal, diesel, hydropower, gas, oil, wind and biomass to generate electricity.

AES Generation Highlights

• AES Gener in Chile generates more than 5,000 MW of coal, gas and hydro. AES Gener recently won POWER magazine’s Power Plant of the Year from Power for Angamos.
• AES owns and operates USA generation plants in California at Los Alamitos, Huntington Beach and Redondo Beach, using natural gas. 
• AES Maritza, a 670 MW lignite-fired plant and state-of-the-art ash disposal facility in Bulgaria.
• Ballylumford is Northern Ireland's largest power station and provides 1,246 MW of power, more than half of the province's power supply. 
• AES Laurel Mountain is a wind plant comprising of 98 MW of wind generation and 32 MW of integrated battery-based energy storage located in West Virginia. The plant supplies more than 260,000 megawatt hours of renewable energy annually. Laurel Mountain won the 2012 Renewable Energy World Wind Project of the Year Award.
• In the Philippines, AES Masinloc was awarded the 2011 EEI Award. As a result of capital investment and operational improvements, AES Philippines increased Masinloc’s capacity from 450 MW to 630 MW, improved availability from 50 percent to 74 percent and increased net production by 62 percent within two years.
• Dominican Republic: AES Dominicana is the largest privately owned generating company and owns the only port that receives liquefied natural gas (LNG).
• Drone Hill is a 28.4 MW wind farm in Berwickshire, Scotland, and was commissioned in August 2012.
• AES Tietê in Brazil generates over 2,600 MW of hydro in the state of São Paulo.
• Nigeria: AES Ebute is the third-largest independent power producer in the country.
• AES Wind Generation, formed in 2005, leverages AES' 25 years of experience in originating, financing, developing and managing power projects around the world. Today, AES Wind Generation has 1,530 MW of wind capacity in the U.S. and Europe.  
• AES Solar, established in 2008 as a joint venture between The AES Corporation and Riverstone Holdings LLC, develops, finances, constructs, owns and operates utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) projects globally. AES Solar currently has 233 MW of projects in Europe and Asia and has a pipeline of projects under development in the U.S., Europe and Asia.  
• AES Energy Storage is the owner-operator of advanced storage projects that provide stored energy to power grids at optimal times to improve grid performance and reliability. AES Energy Storage projects combine patented software, dynamic power control and advanced storage technology.

Upcoming Generation Highlights

• Mong Duong is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power plant in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam, due to be commissioned in 2015. 
• Alto Maipo is a 530 MW hydroelectric project located in Chile’s central Santiago region. Alto Maipo includes two run-of-river plants, Alfalfal II, with a capacity of 264 MW, and Las Lajas, with a capacity of 267 MW. 

For more information on AES Generation, please see our Sustainability section.