The Association of Latin American Electricity Distributors (ADELAT) and the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE) held the regional Webinar “Challenges of Electricity Distribution for the Latin American Energy Transition.”
The event was held at the headquarters of the Permanent Secretariat of OLADE, in Quito, Ecuador, and was transmitted online through the Zoom platform and Youtube to the entire public in the region, government authorities, sector specialists and representatives of leading energy companies.
The event was opened by OLADE’s executive secretary, Andrés Rebolledo, who highlighted the importance of this event as an ideal space to debate and discuss the current vision of the region’s electricity sector. Likewise, the president of ADELAT, David Felipe Acosta Correa, emphasized that it is essential to organize a common language to declare the needs of the region and attract the required investments in energy transition. The Vice Minister of Energy and Renewable Resources of Ecuador, Marcelo Jaramillo, stated that the energy transition in a global sense is the migration of energy in all sectors towards environmentally friendly energies and that the energy transition entails technological and social challenges.
Subsequently, the executive director of ADELAT, Ignacio Santelices, presented the main challenges and guidelines presented in the policy paper prepared collaboratively by experts from the region and professionals from member companies of the Association.
The main panel included important international speakers: José Fernando Prada, executive director of the Energy and Gas Regulatory Commission -CREG- (Colombia) and president of the Ibero-American Association of Energy Regulators -ARIAE-; Martha Cabeza Vargas, Superintendent of Electricity and Fuels (Chile); María Susana David, manager of Legal and Regulatory Affairs EDELAP (Argentina) and Tiago de Barros Correa, energy consultant (Brazil).
During the meeting, aspects and regulatory frameworks of great relevance for the development of modern, resilient and flexible electrical distribution systems were analyzed. The objective of the discussion was to promote the evolution of regulatory frameworks from a cost optimization approach to one of maximizing the social benefits of investments.
Furthermore, topics related to the new role of electric power distributors as Distribution System Operators to enable, in a timely and efficient manner, the energy transition in Latin America were addressed.
About Adelat
Adelat, Association of Latin American Electric Power Distributors, is a non-profit organization, created at the end of 2021. It aims to be a reference for the electricity distribution activity with the objective of promoting and accompanying the transformation process of the Latin American electricity distribution within the framework of the energy transition.
About OLADE
OLADE is an intergovernmental public body of technical cooperation and advisory constituted on November 2, 1973, through the signing of the Lima Agreement, ratified by 27 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, with the fundamental objective of fostering integration, development, conservation, rational use, commercialization and defense of the region’s energy resources.
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