BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA (By Ana Sanches, Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Jul.2026, Words: 416) — The national government, through the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MAE) and the Ecuadorian Electricity Corporation (CELEC EP), is maintaining a rigorous plan to strengthen the Andean country’s electricity generation and transmission infrastructure to prevent any adverse scenarios […]
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Final components for the 91 MW Esmeraldas III thermal power plant reach Esmeraldas
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 4.Apr.2025) — The last 16 generating units and auxiliary components for the new Esmeraldas III thermal power plant finally reached the Esmeraldas commercial port. The imports from Beirut, Lebanon are the last ones necessary to complete the new 91 megawatts (MW) capacity […]
Ecuador To Spend $80mn On Thermal Power Stations
(Reuters, 26.Aug.2021) — Ecuador’s state-run power company CELEC said on Thursday it will spend $80 million to repair idle thermal power plants to prepare them to provide backup electricity supply, as raging river erosion threatens its massive Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric plant. CELEC said the $80 million will recover some […]
Ecuador Races To Move Oil Pipelines
(Reuters, 1.Jul.2021) — Two dozen workers using six excavators cleared a strip of heavy forest in the foothills of Ecuador’s Reventador volcano on an overcast June morning, rushing to carve a new route for an oil pipeline in hopes of avoiding a repeat of the country’s worst oil spill in […]
CELEC To Invest In Highway Near Hydroelectric Plants
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 9.Jan.2020) — Ecuador’s Electric Corporation (CELEC EP) and the Sub-secretariat Zonal 6 of the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works (MTOP) signed an agreement for the maintenance of the Sevilla de Oro – Guarumales highway – Méndez, located in the area of influence of the […]