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Humberio Egoavil Puccinelli
Humberto Egoavil presenta la experiencia de1 Peru
para suministrar electricidad a las comunidades
rurales. al detalla 10s elementos de la planificacion
que su nation ha considerado necesarios para llevar a
cabo dichos proyectos.
Introduccibn
Situaci6n de la Electrificacih
Rural en el Beti
En el Peru, la mayor parte de la poblacidn rural
vive concentrada en localidades o pueblos y no dis-
persa en el campo en el que dessarrolla su actividad
agraria. La mayoria de esta localidades tienen pobla-
ciones inferiores a 10s 2000 habitantes, sin embargo
existen pueblos, con poblacion superior a esta can-
tidad. Es por esta razon que no debe fijarse una can-
tidad de habitantes para cahficar a una localidad
coma rural. En nuestro pais, se debe calificar coma
rural a toda poblacion cuya actividad economica sea
de cargcter agropecuario o derivada de este que-
hater.
La electrification rural en el Peru atin no ha alcan-
zado nivcl satisfactorio, existiendo valles importantes
y numerosas locaiidades aisladas sin servicio electrico
y siendo todavia bajo el consumo de energia de 10s
us .arios. El bajo nivel actual de electrification rural
se debe principalmente a las fuertes necesidades de
inversion para sistemas electricos ubicados principal-
mente en regiones de dificil topografia, sin adecuada
infraestructura vial, lo que encarece las obras. Otros
factores importantes que originan esta situation son
10s escasos recursos economico-financieros y la falta
fle una politica y organization adecuada para el
desarrollo de la electrification rural. Esta situation
refleja que de una poblacion rural de orden de
7,000,000, solo 9.6% tienen servicios electricos. El
consume domiciliario actual de un abonado-rural es
de1 orden de 25 kWh/mes y el consumo anual por
alumbrado public0 en pueblos es de1 orden de 40
kWh/fam.
Electropeni viene implementando pequenos proyec-
tos de electrification de caracter rural. Para este pro-
posit0 se tienen 10s siguientes programas:
Hurnberto Egoavil Puccinelli
rural communities is presented by Humberto
Egoavil. He details the planning elements his
nation has found necessary in carrying out such
projects.
Status of Rural Electrification in Peru
Most of the rural population in Peru is
clustered in communities or villages which do
not spread into the fields used for agricultural
purposes. The majority of these communities
have a population below 2,000 people, however
some towns do have a higher number of in-
habitants. For this reason, population should not
be used as a criterion to qualify a community as
“rural”. In our country, all communities whose
economic activity is agricultural or dedicated to
livestock and their derivatives should be con-
sidered rural.
Rural electrification in Peru has not yet reach-
ed a satisfactcry level since there are important
valleys and numerous isolated communities with
no electrical service and whose energy consump-
tion is still low. The present low level of rural elec-
trification is due primarily to strong needs for in-
vestment in electrical systems located in regions
of difficult topography, without an adequate road
infrastructure, which increases the cost of the
works. Other important factors contributing to
this situation are the scarcity of economic-
financial resources and the lack of adequate
policies and organization to facilitate develop-
ment of rural electrification. This is reflected by
the fact that, out of a rural population on the
order of 7 million, only 9.6% have electrical ser-
vice. The domestic consumption of rural electrici-
ty is on the order of 25 kwhimonth and the an-
nual usage for public illumination in the villages
is about 40kWhlfamily.
Electroperu has been implementing small rural
electrification projects of the following types:
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