Published January 2000 | Version v1
Journal article

Covering of the electric power service

Description

In this article it is sought to deepen more in the topic of the covering of the electric power service, especially in the related with the mechanisms that could facilitate their amplification. In the new market outline, in the one that the participation of the agents is encouraged in all the activities of the chain of services in which the state is not direct lender of the same one, it is confused the form like a covering will be achieved that is of agreement with the goals that intend in the national plan of development and in the sub sectorial plans. Although the rules of the market one comes consolidating, the process of linking of the private capital, especially in the distribution activity, it evidences the importance of to settle down and to define responsibilities and explicit mechanisms in the topic of expansion of the covering. A first interpretation of the ruled indicates the obligation of the state of extending the covering to 100% and of assuming the projects that don't undertake the matters. This would be the reading from the traditional mentality. However, the regulation of you public services of electricity don't demand a total covering, but rather it covers to the users that have the capacity to assume, with their own resources, the efficient costs of benefit. The service will also be lent to residential users that don't have payment capacity, when there are contribution resources or fiscal resources for subsidiary

Additional details

Additional titles

Original title (Spanish)
Cobertura del servicio de energia electrica

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Escenarios y Estrategias Mineria y Energia
Journal Issue
No.4
Journal Page Range
p. 15-22
CODEN
EEMECC

INIS

Country of Publication
Colombia
Country of Input or Organization
Colombia
INIS RN
33012875
Subject category
S29: ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY DEMAND; ENERGY POLICY; MARKET
Descriptors DEC
DEMAND; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; GOVERNMENT POLICIES; POWER