30 million dollars will be invested in electrification of the South Caribbean of Nicaragua
This Government of Nicaragua release was published using machine translation.
With a game of $ 30 million obtained with the Fund for International Development (OFID), Nicaragua will expand the electrical coverage of a large part of the northern South Caribbean , the company's executive president announced Thursday National Electric Transmission (Enatrel) engineer Salvador Mansell.
Mansell said that the sectors that will benefit from this new project are Tortuguero, Mulukukú, El Ayote and Laguna de Perlas . Those sites were visited last week by an OFID delegation "to whom we show what we have done, how we have done it to bring the welfare of Nicaraguan families."
He added that with this contribution a substation will be built on the Cruz de Río Grande. The entourage also passed through Kukra Hill to see the possibility of building another electrical substation.
Regarding the municipality of El Ayote, Mansell said that last time there was talk of building a provisional substation in that town since there is a large agricultural and livestock development of a mountain pass in that place.
" Our government has been planning to build an electrical substation to develop that economic and agricultural part, but we also have hydroelectric projects in those areas," he said .
He said that with all the route that was made with a representation of that international fund and “yesterday we had the evaluation and closure of the mission and thus we managed to capture more resources that are going to cover the projects I have just mentioned” .
He said that once with these executed projects "we would come from the Cruz de Rio Grande, the Tortuguero, the Ayote, Kukra Hill, the Hope and the Gate that we are improving and with the system we have in Bluefields we guarantee that south central part" , the official added.
" If we see all the works that our government has been doing in the Caribbean Coast, we will allow in the whole area to have a presence of the national interconnected system that is to have energy like the one we have in the rest of the country," Mansell added.
Other management
Mansell also referred to another administration that the government does that is to install a solar plant in Kukra Hill of 3 megawatts, another in the Tortuguero of 5 megawatts.
He also reported that resources are already being managed for the electrification of the northern center of the South Caribbean and the rest of the country "where we are talking about 10 to 12 million dollars . "
Mansell announced that enough progress has been made in the expansion of broadband (for the Internet) and “we have finished the pilot plan, but we are managing resources to reach the last municipalities. More than 90 municipalities in the country with fiber optic presence within the Broadband program are completed with broadband. It takes another 30 million dollars more to finish bringing fiber optics to the municipalities that are needed. "
Public luminaires
He added that progress is being made in the installation of public luminaires, as well as the implementation of an energy efficiency program for hospitals in the country.
The air conditioning, lighting system has been changed to the hospitals and "now it is the water heating efficiently and it is one of the important places because the health of Nicaraguan families is attended there," he said.
He said Nicaragua began this year by consuming renewable energy by up to 80 percent. In 2006, only 26 percent of that type of energy was used.
Mansell in his report included the different actions carried out by Enatrel in the electrification of the interior of the country where hundreds of families benefited from access to electricity.
This week access to electricity is carried out by Enatrel in the north and central part of Nicaragua, as well as in the municipality of Tipitapa in the department of Managua.
He concluded by saying that he has been working every day to bring electricity to the farthest sectors of the country and confirmed that there is currently a coverage of access to electricity of 98.42 percent throughout the country.
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