Argentina Seeks to Import 200MW from Bolivia

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(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 24.Mar.2015) – Argentina is considering importing 200 megawatts of energy from Bolivia in 2015, announced Bolivia’s President Evo Morales.

The official also announced Brazil was also requesting more energy, without providing details, reported the daily newspaper La Razón.

“Perhaps this year we are going to start to export those 100 to 200 megawatts that Argentina is requesting,” said Morales during a visit to Cochabamba.

Bolivia has the capacity to export 100 megawatts of energy to Argentina and could slowly increase this capacity as projects come online, said Bolivia’s Hydrocarbon Minister Juan José Sosa Soruco on September 8, 2014.

“At this moment we cannot put our generation system at risk, so we can only consider 100 megawatts this year,” said Sosa. “By 2020 it is possible that we could be exporting 1,000 megawatts.”

Bolivia’s energy reserves are expected to increase this year from 300 megawatts to 500 megawatts with the Warnes thermo-electric plant in Santa Cruz department, according to a March 2, 2015 report from National Electricity Company (ENDE Corporación) President Eduardo Paz.

At the moment maximum electricity demand is 1,298 megawatts while the installed generating capacity on the National Interconnected System (SIN) or electricity grid is 1,600 megawatts, which leaves about 300 megawatts available, according to Paz.

“Our available resources for export are 300 megawatts now but with the addition of the Warnes plant his figure will increase to 500 megawatts,” said Paz. With the addition of the 200 megawatts from the Warnes project, Bolivia will be able to increase the capacity on the SIN to 1,800 megawatts.

During Morales’ nine year tenure as president, the capacity on the SIN has increased to 1,200 megawatts from 700 to 800 megawatts when he first entered office, the official said from Cochabamba.

Bolivia is working on the Yacuiba-Tartagal (Bolivia-Argentina) transmission line whereby it will be able to export excess energy to Argentina, said Morales.

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