Ecuador assumed this Thursday the pro tempore Coordination of the Andean Electric Interconnection System (SINEA), a regional energy initiative, through the management of the Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources.
The transfer took place during the Council of Ministers of this initiative in a telematic session in which senior officials from the energy sector of Chile, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador participated, reaffirming the political will of their nations to continue joint projects to promote regional electrical integration.
The Ecuadorian head of the branch, Juan Carlos Bermeo, stated that, “through the pro tempore Coordination, Ecuador, in liaison with the nations that make up SINEA, will continue with the development of actions to strengthen issues of infrastructure, legal security and planning regional”.
In his speech, the minister considered that these issues are “essential for a necessary regional energy integration.”
In this regard, he referred to the 500 kilovolt (kV) Ecuador-Peru interconnection, an essential project for the integration of the Andean region and an emblematic initiative of SINEA, which will increase energy transactions between the two countries, which have a marked water complementarity.
Bermeo indicated that the project constitutes the link for the integration of Chile and Bolivia to the Andean corridor and, therefore, an additional regional benefit.
The person in charge of Energy recalled that since last October the Agency for the Regulation and Control of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources (ARCERNNR) has held the rotating presidency of the Andean Committee of Normative and Regulatory Bodies of Electricity Services (CANREL), an entity that is part of the Andean Community (CAN).
This last Andean organization set itself the goal of approving the regulations for the application of a decision regarding the “supranational framework for the exchange of electricity at the level of the member countries of the CAN.”
“As SINEA member states, we must commit all our efforts to carry out, update and conclude the studies that allow the establishment of new interconnection infrastructure projects and others necessary for the optimal functioning of the Andean Regional Electricity Market,” Bermeo assured.
SINEA was born with the signing of the Galapagos Declaration in April 2011, in order to develop an Andean electricity corridor through the construction of the necessary infrastructure for regional electrical interconnection and a regulatory framework that facilitates exchanges and transactions of electrical energy.
This mechanism has the support of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), through economic and technical resources, which have made possible studies in the areas of infrastructure regulation and execution.
At the head of the pro tempore Coordination of SINEA, Ecuador has committed to “strengthen and consolidate regional energy integration through joint work between Chile, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia,” reads the statement issued by the Ecuadorian Energy Ministry.
Source: Gestion
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