Electricity distributor AES El Salvador announced that this year it plans to invest $36 million in modernizing the network, which includes the renovation of 8,120 residential and industrial meters.
The company's directors informed that they are contemplating works to expand the electricity distribution networks, the renovation of smart meters, the maintenance of overhead lines and the growth in the construction of underground networks.
The works consist of the design, supply and construction of the amplification of the civil and electromechanical works in the transformer yard of the Panama substation.
Panama Government Purchase 2018-2-78-0-08-LV-010844:
" This project consists of the design, supply and construction of the amplification of the civil and electromechanical works in the 230/115/13.8 kV transformer yard of the Panama substation for the replacement of power autotransformer No. T3; it also includes the engineering and integration of the new equipment with the existing Protection and Control Automation System in the substation for the full connection of all the equipment to the National Interconnected System (SIN).
From January to September 2017, countries in the region imported $229 million worth of electrical transformers, and 43% were purchased by companies in Costa Rica and Panama.
Figures from the information system "Market for Electric Transformers and Converters and Reactor Coils in Central America" , compiled by the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData: [GRAFICA caption = "Click to interact with graph"]
In Guatemala, plans are underway to implement a smart metering system for electricity consumption, where SMEs and residential users will be integrated with small businesses.
Representatives from the Electricity Company of Guatemala (Empresa Eléctrica de Guatemala or Eegsa) announced that within the framework of studies for the New Value Added Distribution (VAD), next year they plan to install smart consumption meters with the option of prepaid payment.
42% of the value of electrical cables imported in 2016 came from Mexico, while in 2012 that proportion barely reached 15% of the total.
Figures from the information system on the the Market for Electric Cables in Central America, compiled by the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData: [GRAFICA caption = "Click to interact with the graph"]