Nicaragua to Study
Electricity Saving
Nicaragua's energy
sector will discuss a
new rationing program
amid little hope that
the annoying power cuts
may drop.
Energy Institute
Director David Castillo
said that although
Planta Nicaragua
connected a second 50 mW
h unit, Centroamerica
plant with similar power
will undergo repair.
Nicaragua suffers a
severe energy crisis
because of the obsolete
technology at its
electricity plants that
operate with petroleum
derivatives plus the
rocketing fuel prices.
The drought has shrunk
the water stored at the
dams feeding its few
hydroelectric plants and
electricity service by
Spanish transnational
Union Fenosa is also in
trouble.
Current electricity
demand in Nicaragua
total 495 mW but an 85
mW h deficit forces
Union Fenosa to
implement daily power
cuts that round
six-hours nation wide.
President Daniel Ortega
said the crisis will
ease on the first
quarter of 2008 with 64
120 mW h plants that
Venezuela and Cuba will
donate plus a 30mW h
plant that Taiwan will
donate by year"s end.
The Sandinista
government also develops
several projects to
exploit its abundant
domestic alternate
energy sources like
geothermic, hydraulic
and aeolic.
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