{"id":5186,"date":"2015-01-23T10:57:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T14:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systep.cl\/cne-recommends-choosing-suezs-line-for-sing-sic-interconnection\/"},"modified":"2015-01-23T10:57:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T14:57:55","slug":"cne-recommends-choosing-suezs-line-for-sing-sic-interconnection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systep.cl\/en\/cne-recommends-choosing-suezs-line-for-sing-sic-interconnection\/","title":{"rendered":"CNE recommends choosing Suez&#8217;s line for SING-SIC interconnection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Estudio de Transmisi\u00f3n Troncal (ETT) recognizes the line of the subsidiary of the Franco-Belgian group Transmisora El\u00e9ctrica del Norte (TEN) as &#8220;under construction&#8221;, and therefore recommends using these assets to complete the interconnection of both systems.<\/p>\n<h1>CNE&#8217;s report recommends choosing Suez line to complete SING-SIC interconnection<\/h1>\n<div>Source: <a title=\"Go to original news\" href=\"http:\/\/static.pulso.cl\/20150122\/2064733.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pulso, Gustavo Orellana V.<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Published on <time datetime=\"Tue, 25 Feb 2014 08:13:55 +0000\">January<\/time> 23, <time datetime=\"Tue, 25 Feb 2014 08:13:55 +0000\">2015<\/time><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>-It was something that was expected, but still caused some surprise: the Trunk Transmission Study (ETT) directly recommended the interconnection SING-SIC with the assets under construction by Transmisora El\u00e9ctrica del Norte (TEN), the subsidiary of the Franco-Belgian group Suez.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Suez&#8217;s masterstroke in announcing the start of work on the line accomplished what the company was looking for: that is, to force it to join the ETT. Although the preliminary versions of the study -whose owner is the Mercados Interconectados consortium, composed of the companies KAS Ingenier\u00eda S.A., SIGLA S.A. and AF Mercados EMI S.A., which prepare it directly for the CNE- already included this project, the inclusion in the final report, which was released on Wednesday, gave the definitive clue.<\/p>\n<p>This is a key input for defining the interconnection project of the country&#8217;s two major electricity systems, the SING and the SIC, a decision that is in the hands of the Minister of Energy, M\u00e1ximo Pacheco, and which is expected to be made public next week at the latest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a system interconnection project it is considered (in the ETT) the additional line presented by Transmisora El\u00e9ctrica del Norte (TEN), which was declared under construction in Annex 5 of the study bases. This project connects the CTM3 power plant from Mejillones to the SIC at the Nueva Cardones substation, through an energized HVAC (alternating current) line.<br \/>\nat 500 kV. The Consultant proposes that the interconnection between the two systems be carried out taking advantage of these facilities,&#8221; the document states.<\/p>\n<p>The ETT also clears the doubt as to whether or not direct current (HVDC) is cheaper than HVAC, which corresponds to Suez&#8217;s plan. &#8220;In terms of the line as such, the continuous (HVDC) alternative is cheaper than the alternating (HVAC) alternative by more than US$150 million. However, the difference is not enough to cover the cost to be incurred for the converter station.<br \/>\nin the HVDC case, the amount of which exceeds US$700 million,&#8221; the text states.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/systep-storage.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/uploads\/Grafico-pulso.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2183\" src=\"https:\/\/systep-storage.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/uploads\/Grafico-pulso.png\" alt=\"Pulse graph\" width=\"873\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systep-storage.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/uploads\/Grafico-pulso-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/systep-storage.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/uploads\/Grafico-pulso.png 873w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 873px) 100vw, 873px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lower costs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest report from the consulting firm Systep states that the materialization of the E-CL project &#8220;would imply the postponement of any other interconnection project, including the alternative<br \/>\noriginally proposed by the government. This, referring to the previous CNE administration, which proposed a project that connected at the Nuevo Encuentro substation -not in Mejillones- and that joined the SIC through a 500 kVDC HVDC line, unlike Suez&#8217;s plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maintaining two interconnection projects loses economic sense. The effect on marginal costs resulting from the energy-intensive entry of economic base energy implies a drop of between<br \/>\nUS$ 7 and US$ 14 per MWh in the marginal costs of the SIC, with respect to the values projected a semester ago. The impact on marginal costs could be greater, but thanks to the SIC-SING interconnection the excess of economic energy is displaced to the SING, decreasing prices in this system in a range between US$14 and US$25 MWh with respect to the US$83 MWh averages previously projected for the 2018-2021 period&#8221;; it is added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interconnection and entry of new projects would reduce marginal costs in the SIC and SING.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systep.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systep.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systep.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systep.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systep.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systep.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systep.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systep.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systep.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systep.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}