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Posted: Nate on Jul 22 | Environment, News
Today in Entre Rios, in the Chapare region of Cochabamba, officials inaugurated a new thermoelectric plant which will have an output capacity of 100 megawatts. This quantity equals roughly 10% of the current electricity production of the National Interconnected System (SIN) which supplies electricity to six departments excluding Beni, Pando, and Tarija. The plant was financed by the national government and cost $86 million. Oscar Coca, a presidential minister, emphasized that the government saved some $14 million with direct governmental administration of the project.
Mr. Coca went on to say that the new electric capacity would offer the country “a guarantee and security that there will not be rationing” during the first six months of the new Evo administration. In his elaboration of the plant´s construction, Mr. Coca emphasized that construction for the plan took only one year and included four “absolutely new” turbogenerators that guarantee “a long and useful life.”
The inauguration of the plant comes after officials announced in April that by 2012 the city of La Paz could face energy shortages and problems with energy supply. The potential energy shortages could arise as generators lose output capacity with decreasing rains and as electrical lines in the city reach over-capacity.
For more in Spanish see:
http://www.laprensa.com.bo/noticias/22-7-2010/noticias/22-07-2010_1293.php
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