Service problems in Costa Rica and Honduras are holding back implementation of the proposed Central American electrical interconnection.
Issac Castillo, manager of Transmisión Eléctrica S.A., announced in Prensa.com: "The electricity interconnection line in Central America will begin operations in sections beginning in 2010. The contractors who are carrying out the interconnection work should deliver the completed project by April 2009, but there is currently a service problem in Costa Rica and Honduras, and that has delayed its implementation."
SIEPAC will be launched Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama at a cost of $395.
According to reports from laprensagrafica.com, "the electrical interconnection in Central America will start in 2010 and will cover some 1,800 kilometers of transmission lines (230 kilowatts), sources close to the project told the "El Panama America" daily.