Latin America News

Latest news and developments from Latin America region

• Chilean CNE tenders price study of 2024-27 valuation process

  May 31, 2022
  Chile’s Comisión Nacional de Energía (CNE) or the National Energy Commission has initiated the development of a tender to conduct a price study for the 2024-27 transmission valuation process.

• Peruvian ISA REP’s Yana Coya line 80 per cent complete [free access]

  May 30, 2022
  Red de Energía del Perú S.A. (ISA REP), a subsidiary of Interconexión Eléctrica (ISA) Group, has completed 80 per cent of the Yana Coya power transmission line – a part of the mega ‘500 kV Mantaro–Nueva Yanango–Carapongo transmission project (Coya project)’.

• Panama’s ETESA receives bids for Veladero–Panamá II transmission line tender

  May 30, 2022
  Panama’s state transmission company, Empresa de Transmision Electrica (ETESA), has received four bids for the 230 kV Veladero–Panamá II line tender.

• Chile’s transmission projects receive environmental qualification

  May 26, 2022
  Colbún Energía’s oro r “Adjustment of North Electricity Transmission Line Horizonte Wind Farm” has received the environmental qualification to be built in the commune of Taltal in Antofagasta Region.

• Chile’s two solar plants and associated transmission projects receive environmental approval

  May 25, 2022
  Andes Solar, a subsidiary of AES Corporation, has received environmental approval for its two solar plants and associated transmission projects in O'Higgins Region, aggregating USD330 million.

• Brazilian ANEEL confirms transmission auction on June 30 [free access]

  May 24, 2022
  Brazilian energy regulator, Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica (ANEEL), has approved Transmission Auction No. 1/2022, with an expected total investment of BRL15.3 billion.

• Engie Brasil and Copel partner for participation in Brazil’s transmission auction

  May 20, 2022
  Engie Brasil has signed an agreement with Copel Geração e Transmissão, wholly-owned subsidiary of Companhia Paranaense de Energia (Copel), to form a consortium to participate in the upcoming transmission auction for project planned for the southeast region of Brazil.

• Ecuador’s CELEC EP and USTDA to take up Digital Modernization project

  May 18, 2022
  Ecuador's state-owned power company, La Empresa Pública Estratégica Corporación Eléctrica del Ecuador (CELEC EP), and the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) have signed an agreement to execute a project for Digital Modernization of the Sistema Nacional de Transmisión (SNT) or the national transmission system.

• Chile’s Kimal–Lo Aguirre HVDC line to operationalise by May 2029 [free access]

  May 17, 2022
  According to Ministerio de Energía Chile or the Chile’s Ministry of Energy, the Kimal–Lo Aguirre high voltage direct current (HVDC) line will commence its operations in May 2029.

• Colombian GEB to take possession of Elecnorte in La Guajira

  May 17, 2022
  Colombian Grupo Energía Bogotá (GEB) has signed a share purchase agreement with UK-based asset management company Ashmore Management Company to acquire its 100 per cent stake in Elecnorte SAS ESP, which provides services in La Guajira department of Colombia.

• Brazilian TAESA raises BRL1.25 million debt issue to fund projects

  May 12, 2022
  Brazil electric power transmission company, Transmissora Alianca de Energia Eletrica SA (TAESA), has made the largest debt issue of the country in 2022 by concluding green bond debentures worth BRL1.25 million.

• Peruvian COES’s 2023-32 preliminary transmission plan receives stakeholders’ comments

  May 12, 2022
  Peru’s power grid coordinator Comité de Operación Económica del Sistema’s (COES) has responded to the comments by stakeholders on its preliminary 2023-32 transmission plan.

• ISA CTEEP and TAESA deliver 500 kV Aimorés Electric Interconnection line in Brazil

  May 9, 2022
  Brazil electric power transmission company Transmissora Alianca de Energia Eletrica SA (TAESA), and Colombian Interconexión Eléctrica’s (ISA) Brazilian subsidiary Companhia de Transmissão de Energia Elétrica Paulista (ISA CTEEP), have completed the construction of the 500 kV Interligação Elétrica Aimorés or Aimorés Electric Interconnection in Minas Gerais.

• Peru's ProInversion launches tender for projects worth USD130 million

  May 9, 2022
  Peru's investment promotion agency ProInversion has launched a tender for two transmission projects –220 kV Ica–Poroma line and and associated substations project, and 220 kV Cáclic–Jaén Norte (2 circuits) Instalaciones de Transmisión de Conexión (ITC) or the Connection Transmission Facilities Link and associated substations project, to strengthen the supply of electricity in the departments of Ica, Amazonas and Cajamarca.

• Colombian ISA to invest USD8 million in Latin American infrastructure projects

  May 9, 2022
  Colombian energy company, Interconexión Eléctrica (ISA), plans to invest USD8 billion in infrastructure projects, mainly in Brazil and Chile, during 2022.

• Paraguayan ANDE commissions power transformer at 220 kV Vaquería substation

  May 9, 2022
  Paraguay’s state-owned power company Administración Nacional de Electricidad (ANDE), has commissioned a 41.6 MVA power transformer at the 220 kV Vaqueria substation, to provide more reliable supply of electricity in the cities of Yhú, Vaquería, Nueva Toledo and Tembiaporá, all in the Department of Caaguazú.

• Panama’s ETESA submits pre-feasibility study under PPP modality for Fourth Transmission Line

  May 9, 2022
  Panama’s state transmission company, Empresa de Transmision Electrica (ETESA), has submitted the pre-feasibility study of the Fourth Transmission Line to the Asociaciones Público-Privadas (APP) or the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Regulatory Entity, for it to be built between the substations of Chiriqui Grande and Bocas del Toro, to the Panama III substation, in the province of Panama.

• Paraguayan ANDE and FONPLATA assess 220 kV transmission project

  May 4, 2022
  The state-run electricity company of Paraguay—Administración Nacional de Electricidad (ANDE), and multilateral South American Bank Fondo Financiero Para El Desarrollo De La Cuenca Del Plata (FONPLATA) have been monitoring the Villa Hayes–Villa Real–Pozo Colorado–Loma Plata project.

• Argentina's ENRE awarded certificate for substation connection in Rio Negro

  April 25, 2022
  Argentina's energy regulator, Ente Nacional Regulador de la Electricidad (ENRE), has issued a Certificate of Convenience and Public Necessity for the connection of the new Ingeniero Cipolletti transformer station to the Sistema Argentino de Interconexión (SADI) or Argentine Interconnection System, as requested by Transporte de Energía Eléctrica–Transcomahue S.A.

• Four companies pre-qualify to bid for Ecuador’s transmission project

  April 25, 2022
  Ecuador’s Ministerio de Energía y Recursos Naturales No Renovables (MERNNR) or the Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources had pre-qualified four companies that had submitted expressions of interest (EoIs) for a USD386 million transmission project in the country.