This year, 10 electrical projects will be awarded for more than US$1.1 billion and are expected to benefit more than 10 million people in 10 departments, according to what was announced by the Private Investment Promotion Agency (Proinversión).
The director of the Proinversión Project Portfolio, Emerson Castro, said that the projects also aim to strengthen the National Interconnected Electric System.
“The development of these electricity transmission projects will strengthen the National Interconnected Electric System (SEIN) and will allow energy to be carried from the production centers (generation plants) to the consumption centers (companies and families) efficiently (lower costs) and with quality of service (without interruptions)”, he said.
WHAT PROJECTS ARE INCLUDED?
After the award of the Enlace Ica – Poroma and ITC Enlace Cáclic – Jaén electrical projects last January (US$ 132 million), the following projects will be the Piura Nueva – Frontera transmission line (US$ 217 million), Enlace Huánuco- Tocache-Celendín-Trujillo and Enlace Celendín-Piura (US$ 611 million), and two groups that include five (5) projects for US$ 164 million (see table Nº 1).
The investments will increase the reliability and capacity of the national electrical system, which today has almost 30,000 kilometers of transmission lines, of which 16,000 kilometers are high-voltage networks (highlighting 3,500 kilometers of 500 kV lines) necessary to minimize power losses. electricity and bring low-cost energy to areas with less availability of cheap energy.
From 2001 to 2022 PROINVERSIÓN has carried out 37 concession processes for electrical projects (generation and transmission) through the Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) modality, generating investment commitments for more than US$9,000 million; In the case of transmission lines, it has developed 32 processes, executing investments for more than US$3.8 billion.
