AEAI
Projects in Latin America
Brazil
Argentina
Belize
Bolivia
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Venezuela
In a matter of two weeks, AEAI successfully mobilized a team of power sector specialists to prepare, under contract to the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, a White Paper used as a discussion paper for the "Central America Conference on Energy & Competitiveness", held in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on May 24-25, 2007. The paper, and its presentation at the Conference, is expected to help focus efforts ifor a series of follow-up actions in the Central American region.
Following is the final version of the White Paper, "Moving Towards a Competitive Paradigm", in Spanish and in English."
Power Sector
Restructuring - Inter-American Development Bank - AEAI staff
conducted an overview and assessment of power sector reform,
restructuring and privatization in 16 Latin American countries,
resulting in the first formal Energy Strategy for IDB. The
assessment covered topics including: institutional, regulatory
and political frameworks, open transmission access, pricing
issues, market competition and development, investment risks,
energy efficiency incentives, and economic, environmental
and social impacts.
Sugar Mill
Cogeneration Project Development - U.S. Trade and Development
Agency - AEAI surveyed private sector industrial clients
in Brazil, ultimately developing a proposal for a conventional
technology cogeneration project for a sugar mill. It initiated
the TDA-sponsored feasibility study for this project in late
1998.
Non-Conventional
Technology Transfer for Cogeneration in Brazil - IFC /GEF
- A multidisciplinary AEAI team developed a project for a
non-commercial technology option for a cogeneration plant
at a sugar mill in Brazil, and received approval of a GEF
grant to conduct a project feasibility study through the
IFC in 2000. As the lead project developer, AEAI and its
local partners provide services covering the conceptual design,
environmental studies and licensing, project financing, contractual
and other requirements for the project.
Latin America
Market Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation through Cogeneration
Opportunities - USAID - AEAI advisors evaluated the potential
of reducing greenhouse gas emissions through industrial and
energy sector cogeneration market development in five Latin
American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia
and Mexico) and considered the legal, regulatory, investment,
information and technological needs of each country to attain
this potential.
Brazil
Support
for Development of Policy, Regulatory and Sustainable Market
Frameworks for National Renewable Energy Program -- U.S.
Agency for International Development - Two-year activity
requiring day-to-day in-house advisory services in the Brazilian
Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) on market development
strategies, concept and project development, capacity-building
and training programs for market agents, and stakeholder
interface at all levels. Presentations and materials in Portuguese
developed and delivered to widely disseminate information
on project design, business and organizational models, partners-market
participants, potential financial mechanisms, technology
transfer topics and communications networks. Interface with
other ministries for integrated development approach for
mainly rural populations; with regulatory and planning agencies
to evaluate the most appropriates practices and incentives
in licensing, pricing, and market-supporting policies and
regulations; and with private and public financial institutions
to secure additional financing support for implementation
of the Brazil Action Plan for the Development of Sustainable
Markets for Rural Renewable Energy Services. AEAI staff was
instrumental in leveraging donor (Inter-American Development
Bank, European Union, USAID, and German and Japanese bilateral)
funds and private sector resources to support market-based
development of Brazil's renewal energy resources, including
photovoltaic, mini and micro hydro, biomass and wind energy.
Institutional capacity building of MME executives and staff,
as well as of its key partners, served as a focal point for
the activity.
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Power Demand
and Supply Options Study - World Bank /G-7 Group - This study
was conducted in order to evaluate the investment requirements
related to the proposed shut don of nuclear power plant Kozloduy.
This report is still used as a reference report, the first
of its kind in Bulgaria. We also conducted training of the
planning department staff as well.
Interconnection
Development - World Bank/USAID/EBRD - AEAI is currently working
with the donor community on interconnection issues in Southeastern
Europe (the Balkans), an area that contains countries with
substantial excess electricity generating capacity and other
countries with potential capacity shortages and very rapid
demand growth. Interconnections in this region are weak and
there is wide variation in the source of generation (hydropower,
nuclear, lignite, gas) and modest differences in the timing
of peak demand. There is great potential that our activity
will result in a World Bank financed transmission project
that will address the potential role of interconnections.
We are conducting assessment/information collection followed
by detailed evaluation of regional power development plan
with emphasis on transmission, concluding with institutional
arrangements needed for achieving this activity including
interregional pricing policy and formation of a power pool.
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