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 […]
MERNNR Works On Slowing Coca River Water Flow
(Energy Analytics Institute, 8.Jul.2020) — René Ortiz, head of Ecuador’s Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources (MERNNR), CELEC EP General Manager Gonzalo Uquillas Vallejo, and Ecuador’s Hydrocarbon Vice Minister María Elisa Soledispa announced construction and incorporation of emerging ramps to decrease the water flow speed of the Coca River […]