In El Salvador industrialists state that capacity to generate energy is not lacking, what is needed is investment to improve capacity of the transmission lines.
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
In the opinion of the Salvadoran Association of Industrialists, the expansion proposal presented by the Salvadorian Transmission Company (Etesal) is fundamental in order to be able to upload the energy that will be generated from new projects, such as thesolar power plant that is planned for construction in Usulutánor thenatural gas plantthat Energía del Pacífico plans to build in Acajutla.
Juan Ceavega, Energy Manager at the ASI, told Laprensagrafica.com: "..."It does not matter who develops the project, we need it done because we are falling behind.What does worries us?The CNE has done a good job in making new projects, has granted ones with natural gas, photovoltaics, wind, (but) aha, how are they going to transport that?We have to grow in terms of transmission'."
"...In the view of the union, the important thing, more than the total cost, is a long-term issue, it is ensuring that the expansion is carried out at the lowest possible cost, and the most urgent is prioritized and not left merely as a plan on paper.For that, they point out that Grupo CEL has to validate the costs of the projects that together make up ETESAL's expansion. In that line, they believe that to date the CEL has done a good job with what has already been approved by the SIGET, phase zero, which are the lines between Acajutla and Ateos, and a part of phase one, which includes improving some substations after a meeting with the distributors."
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On a 98-hectare site in the province of Chiriquí, InterEnergy launched a solar park with a generating capacity of 40 MW, which required a $48 million investment.
The new power generation park, called Ikakos, will transport the electricity produced to the Mata de Nance substation through a 13.7-kilometre-long transmission line.
The Panamanian Ministry of the Environment has hired a consultant to assess the risks and costs of the choice of route for the transmission line proposed by the binational company Interconexión Eléctrica Colombia Panamá.
The Ministry hired an international consulting firm to undertake the analysis of costs and risks of the proposal submitted by Interconexión Eléctrica Colombia Panamá (ICP), which was already approved by Colombia and only requires approval from Panama before it can go ahead.
The loan from the European Investment Bank will finance the improvement of the national electricity transmission network.
The loan will finance the expansion and improvement of energy supply, increasing efficiency, improving service reliability and increasing power generation from renewable sources such as hydro, geothermal and wind.
Investment made by Empresa Transmisora de El Salvador (Etesal) is designated to improve and expand the energy distribution networks.
Elsalvador.com published in its website that "The majority of the investment will be targeted in the La Unión zone, for which has been projected to designate $22 million to install a substation and transmission line."
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