Latin America News

Latest news and developments from Latin America region

• Panama’s ETESA re-extends deadline for Veladero–Panamá II line tender

  April 22, 2022
  Panama’s state transmission company, Empresa de Transmision Electrica (ETESA), has again extended the deadline to receive bids for the 230 kV Veladero–Panamá II line tender, from April 18 to May 5, 2022.

• Honduran ENEE extends deadline to receive bids for 138 kV transmission project

  April 22, 2022
  The Honduran state-owned Empresa Nacional de Energia Electrica (ENEE) has extended the deadline to receive bids for a transmission project, which aims to strengthen the electricity infrastructure in the country.

• Mexican CFE to invest in 10 transmission projects during 2022-24

  April 21, 2022
  Recently, Mexican state-owned power company, Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) Transmission, has announced its plan to invest in 10 transmission projects during 2022-24, with the aim of satisfying the growing demand for electricity and guaranteeing its provision in a timely, reliable and continuous manner.

• Brazil MME approves PDE 2031 with investment of BRL3.2 trillion [free access]

  April 19, 2022
  Brazilian Ministério de Minas e Energia or Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) has given final approval for the Plano Decenal de Expansão de Energia (PDE) or Decennial Energy Expansion Plan which envisages an investment of BRL318 billion in the country’s power generation and transmission segments till 2031.

• Engie’s Nueva La Negra project receives environmental approval in Chile

  April 19, 2022
  Engie Energia Chile SA’s 220/110 kV Nueva La Negra sectioning substation project has received environmental approval from the environmental evaluation

• ETESA’s Sabanitas–Panama III project 20 per cent complete in Panama

  April 18, 2022
  Panama’s electric transmission network developer, Empresa de Transmisión Eléctrica S.A.’s (ETESA) 230 kV Sabanitas–Panama III Electric Transmission Line and Associated Substations project is 20 per cent complete, while targets on the environmental front have been 60 per cent achieved.

• Argentina's ENRE to issue certificate for transmission infrastructure in Buenos Aires

  April 14, 2022
  Argentina's energy regulator Ente Nacional Regulador de la Electricidad (ENRE) will issue a certificate of convenience and public need for new transmission grid infrastructure in Buenos Aires province, as requested by Empresa de Transporte de Energía Eléctrica por Distribución Troncal de la Provincia de Buenos Aires Sociedad Anónima (Transba S.A.).

• Ecuador and Peru advance works for Ecuador–Peru interconnection

  April 14, 2022
  Ecuador’s Ministerio de Energía y Recursos Naturales No Renovables (MERNNR) or the Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources and Peru’s Ministerio de Energía y Minas (MIMEM) or the Ministry of Energy and Mines have given special priority and deployed all the necessary actions to advance the Ecuador–Peru interconnection.

• Brazilian Chesf energises USD33 million substation

  April 12, 2022
  Brazilian utility, Companhia Hidro Eletrica do Sao Francisco (Chesf)—a subsidiary of Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA (Eletrobras), has energised the Teresina II substation in the capital of Piauí for USD33 million with the energisation of the fourth bank of 500/230 kV high voltage autotransformers of the substation.

• Brazilian Furnas invests in intelligent transmission grid

  April 11, 2022
  Furnas Centrais Elétricas S.A. (Furnas), a subsidiary of Brazil’s state-owned power company, Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. (Eletrobras), is investing in cloud, artificial intelligence and big data analytics, which would help improve the monitoring of its power lines and the overall availability of its transmission grid.

• Ecuador’s CELEC EP and Peru’s ISA REP sign MoU for asset management and project development

  April 11, 2022
  Ecuador's state-owned power company, La Empresa Pública Estratégica Corporación Eléctrica del Ecuador’s (CELEC EP), and Red de Energía del Perú S.A. (ISA REP), a subsidiary of Interconexión Eléctrica (ISA) Group, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for one year, to develop activities aimed at the provision of services, asset management, and the development of joint projects.

• Uruguay to initiate construction of Tacuarembó–Salto line [free access]

  April 11, 2022
  The construction phase of the first green transmission line in Uruguay is about to begin.

• Brazilian Senate committee declares Bill for Tucurui line

  April 8, 2022
  The Brazilian Senate committee has approved a Bill that declares the passage of electric power transmission lines through indigenous lands as being of "relevant public interest to the Brazilian state”.

• Brazilian Eletrobras sells stake in CEEE–T to CPFL Energia

  April 6, 2022
  Brazilian state-run power company Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA’s (Eletrobras) has announced the sale of its stake of 32.66 per cent in the energy transmission firm Companhia Estadual de Transmissao de Energia Eletrica (CEEE–T) to CPFL Energia S.A., for BRL1.10 billion.

• Chile to construct 25 transmission projects for USD832 million

  April 6, 2022
  Reportedly, the Ministry of Energy of Chile has registered 25 national and regional transmission projects to begin their construction.

• Peru’s COES publishes 2023–32 preliminary transmission plan of USD1.13 billion

  April 6, 2022
  According to Peru’s power grid coordinator Comité de Operación Económica del Sistema’s (COES) preliminary 2023-32 transmission plan Peru is required to invest over USD1.13 billion to expand and reinforce its electricity dispatch network during 2023–32.

• Peru’s ProInversión qualifies nine groups for concession contract of transmission project

  April 5, 2022
  Peru’s investment promotion agency ProInversión has qualified nine groups for the concession contracts for the 220 kV Reque–Nueva Carhuaquero substations, lines, and associated extensions project.

• Brazilian ONS approves operation of TAESA’s two transmission lines

  April 4, 2022
  Brazil’s Operador Nacional do Sistema Elétrico (ONS) or the National System Operator has approved the launch of operations of two transmission lines of Brazilian electric power transmission company Transmissora Aliança de Energia Elétrica’s (TAESA) in Rio Grande do Sul state.

• Peruvian MINEM plans to invest USD1,513 million in power sector portfolio

  April 4, 2022
  Peru’s Ministerio de Energía y Minas (MIMEM) or the Ministry of Energy and Mines has planned to invest USD1,513 million in a portfolio of electricity generation and transmission projects in the northern regions of the country.

• ENATREL issues tender for 138 kV project in Nicaragua

  April 1, 2022
  Nicaragua’s state power transmission company, Empresa Nacional de Transmisión Eléctrica (ENATREL), has issued an international tender for the 138 kV La Esperanza–Bluefields transmission line project.