25APR24- For more than a year, Ecuador has been seeking to contract new electricity, through land-based generators or barges, to face its electricity crisis, but it has not materialized. The first offer came in March 2023 when Fernando Santos was serving as Minister of Energy in the government of Guillermo Lasso.
The proposal was from the Turkish company Karpowership, owner, operator and builder of the Powership fleet of ships, which former minister Santos defines as "floating power plants." Each of these generating ships has an installed power of between 30 megawatts to 470 megawatts , according to Karpowership on its website.
Why didn't it come to fruition? Former Energy Minister Fernando Santos said there were two obstacles. The first was budgetary. According to former Minister Santos, the companies demanded that funds be allocated to ensure payment of the electricity rate, for example, a trust, and thus avoid State arrears. Only the Turks asked Ecuador to make an advance payment of $80 million
to cover three months of service and the cost of transporting one of their barges from Cuba to the Ecuadorian coast. And not even the state holding company CELEC, which is the largest electricity generator in Ecuador, had that money; nor the Empresa Eléctrica Quito, which was later in charge of the contracting process, Santos said.
The second obstacle, according to Santos, was the delays involved in obtaining environmental permits to bring the barge and to install the engines on land. This is because the substations where the electrical solutions had to be installed had old environmental licenses, which had to be updated, which was going to take several months. There were only three sites, according to Santos, to install the generators, with connections for transmission lines. One was the Isla Trinitaria substation, where a barge could be connected.
This substation had an extra capacity to install up to 230 megawatts. On the other hand, at the Quevedo substation there was a capacity of 130 megawatts for ground engines and at Salitral, a capacity of 100 megawatts also for ground generators. So, the current maximum capacity that can be contracted in new generation is 460 megawatts, but "payment and environmental permits need to be ensured, two obstacles that complicated the previous administration," Santos said...." -
🤠iffin you gonna move down or remain in Ecuador on into 2025, get prepared for whats a coming down the pike🥷🏼its not and has not been just a Coastal & #GYE thang, its also a Sierra & Metro #Quito Thanggy as well👮🏻♂️💰
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now a days The CCW is pretty much streamlined down to this:
plan on about $300 for to join the gun club,about $200 or up to $300 for the CCW course,about $300 for psyche, psycho and toxico exams,
a 9mm Taurus for say $1200.
a 9mm CZ for say $1500.
aprox $80 to $100 for a box of 50rds 9mm FMJ
i see peeps now a days getting legally armed in about a 3-4 months time frame, kinda like a tuff assed visa process!
'Always be prepared' - BSA & SA,
"When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" - Louis L'Amour (1908-1988) Western novelist of ...
23SEP26 #Ecuador 🇪🇨 "An analysis published by CNN en Español examines several Latin American presidents who maintain political ties with Donald Trump and who, after winning elections with radical rhetoric, face social, economic, or governance challenges.
Among the cases examined are Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa , along with Javier Milei in Argentina; José Antonio Kast in Chile; Rodrigo Paz in Bolivia; and Nayib Bukele in El Salvador. CNN also analyzes recently inaugurated presidents in Honduras, Peru, and Colombia.
The publication argues that these leaders capitalized on public discontent with traditional governments and parties by proposing economic adjustments, security measures, and confrontation with their adversaries. However, it posits that this electoral strategy faces limitations when it must translate into effective governance.
Ecuador: security under question
In the Ecuadorian case, CNN focuses part of its analysis on the security strategy promoted by Noboa.
The president declared the internal armed conflict in ...
16SEP26💯%Choneros🚀"On Sept. 16, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere (JTF-WHEM)
forces successfully interdicted a floating refueling station supporting illicit at-sea drug trafficking operations in the Eastern Pacific.
Intelligence confirmed the vessel's involvement with the Los Choneros violent narco-terrorist organization.
Individuals removed from the vessel have been transferred to Ecuadorian authorities. After clearing the vessel and disembarking the crew, U.S. forces sank it.
JTF-WHEM continues to conduct precise and professional operations to dismantle the logistical networks fueling narco-trafficking in the Western Hemisphere.
"Alongside our Ecuadorian partners, we are relentlessly pursuing narco-terrorists who prey on our citizens,
undermine hemispheric security, and leave death and suffering in their wake. This deliberate, lawful, and precise operation saves lives and makes our citizens—from Ecuador to the United States—safer." -
SOUTHCOM ...
"It is an absurdity, it is laughable, to speak of such a
pending disaster as "The End of the World."
We are discussing the end of Humanity, or we are discussing the
end of Civilization, or we are perhaps even discussing
the end of some this or that Empire that we mistakenly
believe to identify with.
The end of the world will come when the sun
expands and engulfs it.
Now, is it truly a surprise that our discourse relates
economic tragedy with an ecological one?
That we actually behave as though a marked downturn in
the Market can somehow be compared to the death of Nature?
We are so enamored with our vastness and resource that we have forgotten the lark and the sparrow.
So I say, come armageddon. Come, you horsemen.
Let us speak these things no more."
— Takici Kaneko, 1934 - 'SteamPunk Magazine' 3-A4
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