In the first week of January, Daniel Noboa’s government will assess whether to continue the blackouts that were suspended until January 1, 2024 thanks to the increase in the accumulations of the main hydropower plants.

The state of emergency has not passed, despite the fact that the Minister of Energy and Mining, Andrea Arrobo, said that there is optimal management of the electrical problem and that this week he will finish analyzing which offshore companies provide the best cost and shortest time tender for power supply.

Will blackouts return in 2024? This was said by the Minister of Energy, Andrea Arrobo

Ecuadorians cannot be asked to depend on increased flows in the Amazon region, where rains are now scarce. Technical solutions are awaited, the most expensive for the economy in the short term. Ecuador is paying the highest price it has ever paid to Colombia for energy imports, as former minister Santos Alvite has admitted and attributed to a miscalculation.

Long-term solutions require a political decision, and they are what will prevent us from suffering from power outages every year, if it doesn’t rain.

Ecuador has invited offshore companies to compete in the supply of electricity

The Government sent the Law on Energy Competitiveness to the National Assembly. According to Minister Arrobo’s post on social network X, it is a no-return way to feed and strengthen the national energy system.

In the same content, he literally emphasizes three points: 1.- Avoid leaving the sector, 2.- Prevent the crisis. No more power outages! 3.- Promote the expansion plan for energy production and transmission.

The government clarifies that the urgent law on energy competitiveness does not call for privatization

This paper requested an interview with the Secretary of State from the beginning of her administration, precisely so that our readers would find out firsthand what is being done and what is missing in solving the energy crisis and other issues within their jurisdiction. Still no answer.

Citizens are asking the authorities for explanations, but above all, solutions that they hope will come from the Government’s approaches so that they do not depend only on nature (rain). (OR)