Chile Watch: Developer says ruling doesn't affect US$1bn dispatch project

InterChile reported that the Santiago environmental tribunal's decision to accept a claim from Comunidad Agrícola La Dormida against environmental evaluation service SEA's approval of the US$1bn Cardones-Polpaico transmission project does not impact construction.

"Regarding its scope, the ruling does not affect in any way the validity of the RCA [environmental qualification resolution], nor suspends its effects, and only orders the SEA to process the request for invalidation, having to issue a substantive decision in this regard," according to InterChile, local paper La Tercera reported.

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The national energy commission (CNE) began a public consultation for the draft technical annex related to measurement, monitoring and control systems of the technical standard regarding service quality for distribution systems.

CNE will accept comment on the document, available here, through February 27.

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AES Gener, Chilquinta Energía, Enel Distribución Chile, Engie Energía Chile and Transelec, among other companies, filed discrepancies, available here, with the panel of experts that is tasked with resolving differences related to the country's general law on electricity services, against CNE's 2018 transmission expansion plan.

Read Chile Issues Final Technical Report of the 2018 Transmission Expansion Plan