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Report Calls for a Ground-Up Overhaul of Sopladora, Delsitanisagua and Minas San Francisco
US Federal Transmission Grid Policy hydroelectric plants, Ecuador became an exporter
The policies that govern US transmission grid of electricity. In an interview with PRIMICIAS, the
planning and investment can’t support the country’s Deputy Minister of Electricity, Hernando Merchán,
need for an unprecedented expansion of clean says that currently the country's large hydroelectric
energy. Federal regulators need to declare the plants are operating at full capacity. Although
current paradigm “unjust and unreasonable,” and it ensures that there are units in maintenance
implement a new one to spur hundreds of billions processes, when there are water resource limitations.
of dollars of investment in a nation-spanning It affirms that the country has a great potential for
transmission build-out over the next decade. That’s hydraulic generation, but that only 8% of the 27,000
the stark conclusion of Planning for the Future, a gigawatt hours (GWh) produced are expected to be
new report sponsored by clean-energy groups that exported between 2021 and 2022. (Source: Primicias)
have been demanding a major overhaul of federal
transmission policy for years and see the Biden- Drax Cancels Plan to Build Europe’s
Harris administration and a Democratic-controlled Largest Gas Plant
4 Congress as offering a pathway to get there. The Plans for a new 3.6-gigawatt natural gas power plant
fundamental premise of the report, that the country in the U.K. have been shelved by the developer Drax,
needs large-scale, inter-regional transmission to highlighting the challenging economics of converting
meet its future energy needs, is also supported by coal-fired power to a cleaner, but still fossil-fuel-
seven former commissioners of the Federal Energy fired, alternative. It would have been the largest
Regulatory Commission, the key government agency gas plant in Europe and, unsurprisingly, drew the
that can get the job done. (Source: Greentechmedia) attention of environmental groups. They had claimed
that the project’s permit was not
compatible with the U.K.’s climate
change laws. A court rejected that
assertion, but the advocacy groups
claimed a victory on Feb.25
regardless. Some commentators
likened the move to the early
phases of the U.K.’s not-so-
gradual coal phaseout, but that
would appear to be premature.
(Source: Belfast telegraph)

Prysmian Confirmed as
RTE's Major Partner in the
Upgrade of French Power
Transmission Grids
Prysmian Group, world leader
Electricity exports generated revenues of in the energy and telecom cable systems industry,
USD 55 million in Ecuador signed a new framework agreement with Réseau de
After the construction of the Coca Codo Sinclair, Transport d'Electricité (RTE), France's Transmission

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