A unfavorable situation for funding in vitality transmission within the Ñuble area was described by the previous seremi of the department, Manuel Cofré Suárez, who criticized the shortage of recent initiatives, in addition to the delay of key initiatives, such because the 66 KV Charrúa-Chillán line , whose fifth tender was declared void final March.
“Tasks are lacking. Lately no new initiatives have been introduced. The 2022 enlargement plan was zero for Ñuble; the 2023 plan was two substations, one in Coihueco and one in Pinto, minors; the open season for pressing works, which was introduced final yr, zero (the 2 Ñuble works nominated weren’t chosen by the authority); The Charrúa-Chillán tender fell, the 66 kV line modified the driving force; and the 66 kV Monterrico-Cocharcas line fell; and there aren’t any new initiatives, the problem is that there’s a lack of recent initiatives,” he said.
The economic civil engineer and lawyer emphasised that the vitality perspective have to be long-term. “Transmission initiatives take a minimal of six years, from when the enlargement plan is offered till the ribbon is reduce. So, if we’re enthusiastic regarding initiatives that start operations in 2030, now’s when we’ve got to start out the bidding course of and the whole lot that entails, and I do not see that. “I don’t know what new transmission works are being promoted for the 2024 enlargement plan,” he argued.
Vitality and poverty
Requested concerning the failed tenders for the Charrúa-Chillán and Monterrico-Cocharcas transmission traces, he said that, “in each initiatives, it was made as dangerous as potential. “They repeated the identical mannequin of the earlier failed tenders, the place we went from having one bidder to having none.”
However, Cofré referred to the lack of time in contracting a examine to quantify vitality demand, indicating that “we don’t have to attend for the opinion of Santiago residents to appreciate that the Cocharcas and Chillán substations are collapsed, that Coelemu wants a substation or that the road that feeds San Carlos can not cope, to call just a few examples. With this inappropriate paperwork, the one factor we’ll obtain is to decelerate the event of Ñuble and proceed within the present states of poverty that the area reveals.”
“Ñuble is poor because of lack of transmission. It is that easy. Final yr we grew to become the poorest area in Chile. And that’s the reason we requested a lot for the Las Delicias substation and the Coiquén substation, in Itata, as a result of it’s the solely approach to get Itata out of the lag zone – which is a sublime time period for poor – is by putting in corporations, and as we speak you It can not set up something, a sawmill, a big packing home, a big lodge, or a hospital, as a result of it has no energy. So, you must have substations, and you must have energy. Now, if later the inhabitants of Cobquecura or the coast grows and desires large-scale water desalination vegetation, they will even require vitality; When electromobility turns into widespread, they may want extra vitality. I consider that poverty in Ñuble is fought with vitality, amongst different components, however vitality is crucial,” mirrored the previous seremi.
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