Latin America News

Latest news and developments from Latin America region

• Bolivian ENDE awards USD10 million contract to Ingener, Siemens [free access]

  July 20, 2020
  Bolivian state energy company Empresa Nacional de Electricidad’s (ENDE) subsidiary, ENDE Transmission, has awarded a USD10 million contract to a consortium comprising of Uruguay’s Ingener and German Siemens for the development and commissioning of a 50 MVAr static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) system.

• Brazilian ANEEL announces TUST and RAP for 2020-21

  July 14, 2020
  Brazilian energy regulator, Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica (ANEEL), announced that the total revenue required to be collected as tariff for the use of the transmission system or the Tarifa de Uso do Sistema de Transmissão (TUST), for the financial cycle (2020-21) will be BRL27.9 billion, effective July 1, 2020.

• Brazil’s MME announces new timelines for transmission auctions

  July 13, 2020
  Brazil’s Ministro de Minas e Energia (MME) or Ministry of Mines and Energy has announced a new schedule for conducting the auctions for the concession of transmission projects for the next three years (2020-22).

• ABB installs 500 kV digital substation in Brazil

  July 13, 2020
  Recently, Swedish-Swiss power and automation technology company, ABB, has installed a 500 kV digital substation in Brazil, which will transmit electricity from the São Gonçalo solar photovoltaic (PV) plant located in Piauí to the country’s 500 kV transmission network.

• Chilean CEN issues complementary report to 2020 transmission expansion proposal

  July 13, 2020
  Recently, the Chilean national electricity system coordinator, Coordinador Eléctrico Nacional (CEN), has released Informe Complementario a la Propuesta del Plan de Expansión de la Transmisión 2020 or the Complementary Report to the Proposal for the 2020 Transmission Expansion Plan.

• Federal court suspends CFE 800 per cent hike in transmission fee [free access]

  July 7, 2020
  The Mexican federal court has granted a suspension over the transmission fee hike that the Mexican state-owned utility, Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE), applied to electricity generators recently, with increases of as much as 800 per cent.

• Colombia adds and modifies projects under 2019-33 energy plan

  July 6, 2020
  Colombia’s Ministerio de Minas y Energía or Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) has added a new transmission project and modified two projects under the country’s electricity generation and transmission plan, 2019-33.

• Paraguay’s ANDE modernises 220 kV Limpio–Villa Hayes line

  July 6, 2020
  Paraguay’s state-owned power company, Administración Nacional de Electricidad (ANDE), has completed the modernisation of the 220 kV Limpio–Villa Hayes line.

• CELEC EP completes alternate transmission operation centre in Ecuador

  July 6, 2020
  Recently, Ecuador's state-owned power company, La Empresa Pública Estratégica Corporación Eléctrica del Ecuador (CELEC EP), completed the Alternate Transmission Operation Center, which will be operated via CELEC EP’s Transelectric Business Unit.

• Spanish Elecnor bags 185 MW wind farm contract in Chile

  July 2, 2020
  The Spanish infrastructure, energy and telecommunications company, Elecnor, has been awarded a contract for the construction of the 185 MW Cerro Tigre wind farm in Chile.

• Paraguayan ANDE awards 500 kV Yguazú substation project

  June 29, 2020
  Paraguay’s state-owned power company, Administración Nacional de Electricidad (ANDE), has awarded contracts aggregating to USD108 million for works associated with the 500 kV Yguazú substation and interconnection project.

• Sempra Energy completes sale of Chilean business to State Grid [free access]

  June 24, 2020
  San Diego-based Sempra Energy and State Grid International Development Limited (SGID), a wholly-owned subsidiary of State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), has officially completed the sale process of Sempra’s energy business in Chile, to the latter, on June 24.

• Chilean CEN awards USD57 million in 18 transmission contracts to local players

  June 24, 2020
  Recently, the Chilean national electricity system, Coordinador Eléctrico Nacional (CEN), has awarded 18 engineering, construction and procurement (EPC) contracts under the decrees 418/2017 and 293/2018 for the expansion of various transmission facilities located between Arica and Chiloé cities of the country.

• Dominican ETED commissions 132 kV El Seíbo–Hato line project

  June 22, 2020
  Dominican Republic transmission utility, Empresa de Transmision Electrica Dominicana (ETED), has successfully commissioned the 138 kV El Seíbo–Hato Mayor transmission line project, and further connected it to the Sistema Eléctrico Nacional Interconectado (SENI) or the National Interconnected Electric System.

• Engie Brasil Energia, BNDES sign USD487 million deal for Novo Estado power lines

  June 16, 2020
  Brazilian utility Engie Brasil Energia SA has signed a financing agreement worth USD487 million with the Brazilian state-owned Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES) or the National Bank for Economic and Social Development, for the development of the Novo Estado transmission line project.

• Venezuelan CORPOELEC completes maintenance works for transmission facilities

  June 16, 2020
  Recently, Venezuelan power company, Corporación Electrica Nacional, S.A. (CORPOELEC), completed maintenance works at various transmission facilities in the Justo Briceño, Julio César Salas, Tulio Febres Cordero, Caracciolo Parra and Olmedo in the Mérida and Sucre states of the country.

• Ecuador’s CELEC EP to upgrade Nueva Prosperina substation

  June 15, 2020
  Ecuador's state-owned power company, La Empresa Pública Estratégica Corporación Eléctrica del Ecuador (CELEC EP), is upgrading the Nueva Prosperina substation, by installing a new 225 MVA, 230 kV power transformer.

• Sempra Energy to sign agreement to sell Chilean business to State Grid this month

  June 10, 2020
  San Diego-based Sempra Energy and State Grid International Development Limited (SGID), a wholly-owned subsidiary of State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), have jointly that the sale process of Sempra’s energy business in Chile to the latter will be completed on June 24.

• Mexican CFE applies immediate 800% hike in transmission fee [free access]

  June 10, 2020
  As per the Mexican state-owned utility Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE), the new transmission fees are applicable immediately to electricity generators, with increases of as much as 800 per cent.

• Spanish Abengoa bags substation expansion contract from Chilean Transelec

  June 9, 2020
  Spanish multinational corporation, Abengoa SA, has bagged a contract from the Chilean power transmission company, Transelec SA, for the expansion of a 220 kV substation near the city of María Elena, in the Antofagasta region.