Limitaciones de la energía eléctrica para la industrialización del Departamento de Itapúa

Abstract

The summer of 2009/10 presented a difficult-to-imagine reality to the country, as it holds the title of the biggest exporter of electric power in South America.The crisis in the electric power supply was going to be a sad nightmare, being Paraguay, the co-owner of the two most important hydroelectric power stations in the world.

 The deficits in the ability to access the available energy, in the transportation, processing and distribution infrastructure, as we enter the summer of 2010/2011, will necessarily affect the National Interconnected System (SIN, in Spanish) and selective blackouts will recur throughout the country.For being a part of this System, an identical scenario is presented to the Department of Itapuá. In turn, the cost of electric power rates will remain elevated in relation to other types of power, while the hydrogeneration is directly affected by the debts of the respective Binational Enterprises; this will discourage the production development with a growth based in the electric power of ANDE in Itapúa. The marked difference at least in the price of energy derived from wood or charcoal, and its still easily availability, explains the high incidence of biomass into the national energy sources.