Peru's immense hydroelectric
potential, the
second in the region, continues to be wasted, while it is in 13th place in
energy consumption, while continuing the massive electrical cost overruns to
the population and productive enterprises. Electric poverty rise, and worst in
our amazonica reggion, als can be appreciated in the global energétical poverty
maps show above.
The drama has 5 acts:
1.- Public investment collapsed
and worse still fragmented with regionalization, product of the crisis and
austerity policy (IMF - BM), in the 80s and 90s ....
2.- It is legislated in the 90s
to solve the energy crisis by promoting thermoelectric generation - burning
more oil than gas - increasing energy dependence and discouraging hydroelectric
projects that were already advancing at a slow pace.
3.- Over-rates are applied to the
population and productive companies to ensure "cofinancing" and
"guaranteed income" to concessionary companies, under the APP scheme
(Public Private Partnerships)
4.- Biased
tariff system in favor of thermoelectric plants and burdensome to the most
efficient hydroelectric plants; presenting perverse stimuli.
5- Despite the proven physical
and environmental efficiency of hydroelectric projects, the government has
almost taken them out of their projected investment to
favor now the inefficient wind or solar energy, following the uncontrolled
recommendations of COP 21 said by the long controversial “warming global ”,
projects promoted by foreign investment funds. To that was added years ago the
cancellation of the immense hydroelectric
project of Inambari, by the opposition of the radical environmentalists
manipulating the natives, and the illegal gold miners of Madre de Dios (South
of Peru).
Meanwhile, industrial and urban
electricity demand grows, inside
and outside the borders, and that allows more
realistic private companies to bet on building new hydroelectric plants,
hoping that the current or next government will stop rewarding the “tarifazos”
and inefficiency by sacrificing development, also betting on the relegated
nuclear development.
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