Regional Electrical Energy Project

The objective of this six year CIDA project was to assist in the reform of the electrical sector in six Central American countries. The overall concept is to encourage adoption of regional actions, cooperation and planning to achieve improved access to electricity, and to reduce capital requirements by:

• Improving government regulatory systems and personnel resources to facilitate development, particularly from the private sector
• Reducing technical and nontechnical losses
• Promoting private investment, including privatization of generation and distribution, and facilitating new BOO generation
• Improving equitable access to electricity 
• Optimising the use of existing transmission interconnections, and to assist in providing more uniform planning methods over the region, to minimize requirements for new generation and transmission