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• Brazil to supply energy to Argentina to cover shortage
  May 2, 2008 - The Associated Press
  
  Brazil's Energy Minister says the country will supply Argentina with energy to make up for a shortfall during the upcoming Southern Hemisphere winter.
  
  
• Brazil to supply energy to Argentina: minister
  Mar 19, 2008 -- Xinhua
  
  Brazil will supply energy to Argentina during the winter season so as to relieve the neighbor from the energy crisis, Brazilian Minister of Mining and Energy Edison Lobao confirmed Tuesday.
  
  
• Andean Nations Take First Step Toward Regional Power Grid
  Nov 20, 2007 - Xinhua
  
  Senior energy officials from fiveAndean nations agreed here Monday to work on a project that will connect the electricity network in the region. "The meeting was very fruitful. We have taken the first step," Chilean Energy Minister Marcelo Tokman told a press conference after a meeting with his counterparts from Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Colombia.
  
  
• A Caribbean electricity grid, how possible is it?
  Nov 20, 2007 - The Barbados Advocate
  
  With the rising cost of electricity associated with the increasing cost of traditional fuels, such as oil, one businessman possesses the vision of a multi-source electricity grid that encompasses the entire region.
  
  
• South American nations to solicit power grid study
  Nov 19, 2007 - Reuters UK
  
  SANTIAGO, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia expect to complete a feasibility study on a regional electricity grid by December 2008, energy officials from the five countries said on Monday.
  
  
• Sharyland Utilities Commissions 150 Megawatt 'DC Tie' Between Texas and Mexico
  Oct 10, 2007 - /PRNewswire
  
  Sharyland Utilities, L.P. announced that a ceremonial commissioning event was held today at the Sharyland Plantation in Mission, Texas, for its new $40 million, 150 megawatt High Voltage Direct Current Tie ("DC Tie") project.
  
  
• Rebel attacks delay Colombia's new power link with Ecuador
  Oct 10, 2007 - EFE
  
  Colombia's leftist FARC rebels knocked down four pylons of a new line of the electrical interconnection system between their country and neighboring Ecuador, whose inauguration had been scheduled for November, authorities said Wednesday.
  
  
• Mexico's State Power Utility To Build Lines For Wind Projects
  May 16, 2007 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
  
  MEXICO CITY - Mexico's state-owned electric utility Comision Federal de Electricidad, or CFE, said it plans to build transmission lines to carry power from private wind-driven projects under way in southern Mexico.
  
  
• Routes to interconnect Columbia and Panama
  
  Currently, a Colombia-Panama interconnection project is being developed, which will make possible the access to the Central American market, supported in the development of the Central American Electric Interconnection System (SIEPAC), creating an energy corridor from Mexico to Peru.
  
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• Mexico, Guatemala link power grids
  Jun 15, 2006 - EFE
  
  President Vicente Fox and Guatemalan counterpart Oscar Berger met Tuesday in the southern Mexican border town of Tapachula to inaugurate a link between the two countries’ power grids as part of a regional integration initiative.
  
  http://www.laoferta.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2435&Itemid=38

• A new vision for Mesoamerica
  Aug 2001 - Peter Bate - IDBAmerica
  
  The Puebla-Panama Plan also offers the countries of the region a cooperation mechanism for addressing shared challenges and for channeling support from the international community (see link to press release on the right). One example is the energy integration initiative, which is aimed at unifying the region’s electrical power markets and thus attracting more investment in power generation as a means to reduce the high cost of electricity.
  
  http://www.iadb.org/IDBAMERICA/English/AUG01E/aug01e1.html

• Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership, Latin American Regional Meeting
  Aug 2003 - RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ENERGY EFFICICIENCY (REEES) IN CENTRAL AMERICA
  
  Central American energy scenarios has been changing in the recent years due to rapid transformations on the structure of energy markets and their structures . At the same time, a sizeable fraction of the population continues without access to rural energy services. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview on basic information on key policies, regulatory and financing issues, and opportunities for the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Systems (REES) in the region.
  
  http://www.reeep.org/media/downloadable_documents/LAC%20Background%20Central%20America%20(english).pdf

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