Uruguay among the countries in Latam with the highest power costs

Monday, October 21st 2013 - 07:13 UTC

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Uruguay is among the Latin-American and Caribbean countries with the highest power costs according to a paper from the Inter-American Development Bank, IDB, Bloomberg and New Energy Finance. This is extensive both for residential consumers and for manufacturing and large consumers. Read full article

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ChrisR
The UK has only moderate wind strength when compared with Uruguay but that is a blessing and a curse.

The UK windmills mange just 8% on average of the “installed” power rating for all the wind farms both onshore and offshore. Uruguay will exceed that by a small amount I have no doubt but there are other difficulties. All windmills are notoriously easy to wreck in high and gusting winds and from my personal experience we have plenty of that. The control gear cannot overcome the high inertias that the blades have before the excess energy wrecks the transmissions and usually sets fire to the oil within them leading to total loss of the ‘mill.

UTE, the government owned monopoly electricity provider is lamentably managed and all aspects of the business are overstaffed with numpties in my experience. If you visit the place because you have not received your monthly bill you get a 50 pesos fine for being late in paying it! And the bills are delivered by UTE employed people!! Apparently if the bill does not arrive in time to pay it YOU are to blame for NOT paying it. You couldn’t make this up.

We pay about UY$ 2,600 per month on average (US$ 122 per month) but the local people won’t be paying that much because they just don’t have the electrical equipment that we have, but I know several people who struggle to pay their UTE bills as it is.

The government screw the citizens at every turn. They have failed to move with the times and have gone down the sheep route with windmills, just at a time when the UK are removing a windmill farm for not coming up to 7% of the “installed” power. And of course we are taxed at each step plus VAT.

Commie governments: I have shit better things, but it won’t be for much longer and Pepe will be gone.
Oct 21st, 2013 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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redp0ll
60% comes from hydro dams long since paid off and with the abundant rainfall this % should rise. But will we get our UTE bills reduced? Like hell we wont. More than 22% of our bills is IVA (value added tax) which the srcounging government cant afford to lose if electricity costs are reduced
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