Peru- MINEM: Electricity production in November 2022 was 5,085 GWh nationwide

This Minem release was published using machine translation.

The Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM), through the General Directorate of Electricity, reported that the total production of electrical energy registered nationwide at the end of November 2022, including Isolated Systems and the National Interconnected Electrical System (SEIN ) from Peru amounted to 5,085 gigawatt hours (GWh), which meant an increase of 5.6% compared to the same month of 2021.

According to the report called "Main indicators of the electricity sector at the national level", prepared by MINEM specialists, of the total registered 4,956 GWh (97%) was generated for the electricity market and 129 GWh (3%) was for use own, that is, what is required by industrial companies (sugar, oil, mining, among others).

The increase in electricity production is mainly based on the economic reactivation of the various industries that operate at the national level, and that have been progressively overcoming the difficult situation they went through due to the COVID-19 pandemic, during the last two years.

Regarding the source of electricity generation, the report indicates that the hydroelectric plants produced 1,856 GWh, that is, 26% less than what was generated in November 2021, due to the low flow of rivers at this time of year; and on the side of the thermal units that use natural gas, these registered 2,868 GWh, that is, 47% more than what was produced in the same period last year.

Regarding the generation with non-conventional renewable energy resources (RER) (solar, wind, bagasse and biogas), in the eleventh month of the year it accumulated a production of 272 GWh, that is, 7% less than the figure registered in a similar period of 2021. This amount of energy represents 5.3% of national production during the period analyzed.