Written by Karen Molina
The company AES El Salvador (which owns the power distribution CAESS, Clesa, EEO and DEUSEM) said yesterday that next year invest between $ 25 to $ 27 million dollars which aims to expand electricity coverage in most families still do not.
Ricardo Vega, AES Vice President of Operations, said yesterday that the investment involves the expansion of networks, improvements in the quality of energy, infrastructure, computer equipment and more.
In five years, they hope to have covered 95% of the entire national territory and increasing its number of customers in at least 200 thousand people. This year the conglomerate has invested $ 24.7 million which exceeded $ 2 million and a half the number who had planned to reach the end of the year.
With this disbursement 3.053 jobs were maintained in strategic projects. One of the most significant has been the electrification of 500 kilometers of projects Fomilenio flag. A total of 1.300 kilometers of wiring to be installed within the next five years and that energy would lead to thousands of Salvadoran households. Only the project generated 942 jobs
LOOKING AHEAD
energíapara produce more Salvadorans pass through tuning large-scale projects that are still in the plans of AES.
The next is a long term contract that promotes the Superintendency of Electricity and Telecommunications, with which companies will be invited to participate in the generaciónde 300 megawatts in 15 years.
Vega said the bidding documents are ready and expected to be published in the next half of 2011 for the winner to be ready in June, and thereafter, begin to take the time to construction of the power plant. Vega said that because the contract was already established as a legal tool for power generating companies, he does believe that there are sufficient conditions to expand and upgrade the electricity grid.
Another project is also being targeted, but that will depend on the energy demand is the SYSTEM OF Electrical Interconnection of the Countries of Central America (SIEPAC) The first stage is well underway between Panama and Costa Rica.
The AES Executive anticipated that this regional project is already running in 2012 and El Salvador does not rule out importing energy from these countries, every now and then they may also have excess energy. Nicaragua, for example, is currently condéficit energy for which he has had to rationing. At home, Vega says there is no generation gap so that, contrary to import energy, the goal for the future will increase it and export it.
respect to energy rates, Vega said that the constant has been an increase during the rainy winter veranomientras that had been reduced due to the large amount of water that helps to generate more energy. However, rates could rise if a barrel of oil at the international level continues to increase its value.
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