Project Finance and Asset Management for Electric Transmission Lines in Peru

This paper is focused on the technical, regulatory, and financial evaluation of the electricity transmission service that a company can provide to an electricity generation company for the electric transmission lines services for a period of 30 years. The analysis includes the regulatory context and the role that each regulatory institution plays when evaluating a project of this large scale. This paper also describes asset management practices for the transmission lines that need to be considered when contracting the electricity transmission service. This paper additionally entails the regulatory frame for a hydroelectric power plant in Peru and the economic, technical, and financial factors that the company needs to consider when they want to connect their plant to a substation in the National Interconnected Electrical System (SEIN).