Bolivia : rural electrification II

The Empresa Nacional de Electricidad S.A. (ENDE), an autonomous public corporation, will coordinate and oversee implementation by four sub-borrowers. Work planned for each department consists of erecting distribution lines and substations, providing street lights, and installing consumer house connections, plus related distribution transformers, meters, and protective equipment. In La Paz, a total of 605 km of distribution lines will be constructed in the Altiplano area near Lake Titicaca, the semitropical valley area of Los Yungas, and the high dry valley of Rio Abajo. In Chuquisaca department, 365 km of lines will be built, between the city of Sucre and the towns of Padilla to the east and Mamahuasi to the northwest. In Potosi, 335 km of distribution lines will serve 2 areas: between Betanzos and Esquiri-Rancho southeast of the city of Potosi, and in the Camargo area. Finally, 475 km of lines will be raised in two separate areas of Tarija department: (1) extending service to northern, southern, and eastern rural areas adjacent to the city of Tarija; and (2) initiating service north and south of the town of Villa Montes. Some 52,000 rural residential, small commercial, and small industrial users will be receiving electric services by 1986, the tenth year of operation of the new facilities. The four sub-borrowers participating in the project will be the Instituto Nacional de Electrification Rural (La Paz); Cooperativa Electrica de Sucre, S.A. (Chuquisaca); Servicios Electricos de Potosi, S.A.; and Servicios Electricos de Tarija, S.A.