Indecopi reported that the Ministry of the Environment (Minam) eliminated a bureaucratic barrier which generated cost overruns of S/70 million for the electricity sector and forced companies to use engines and fuels that are not available in the Peruvian market.
It should be noted that Indecopi had already warned about this obstacle that affected the activity of companies, without generating an environmental benefit commensurate with the costs it involved.
In that sense, the organization highlighted the “proactive attitude” of Minam for the review of the rule that generated unnecessary costs without a proportional environmental benefit and that was only incorporated in 2021 by supreme decree 030-2021-Minam.
According to the Technical Secretariat of the Commission for the Elimination of Bureaucratic Barriers (CEB) of the institution, the now eliminated standard required the use of new internal combustion engines for electricity generation that only work with diesel with very low sulfur content (10 parts per million).
In addition, it required the purchase of equipment certified under international standards, which implied an additional cost of up to 20% in the investment and an approximate increase of 5% in operating costs.
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