{"id":20383,"date":"2025-06-24T09:39:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T09:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/america-latina-y-el-caribe-pierden-casi-us-7-000-millones-anuales-debido-a-los-vertimientos-de-energia-electrica\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:16:01","slug":"america-latina-y-el-caribe-pierden-casi-us-7-000-millones-anuales-debido-a-los-vertimientos-de-energia-electrica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/america-latina-y-el-caribe-pierden-casi-us-7-000-millones-anuales-debido-a-los-vertimientos-de-energia-electrica\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin America and the Caribbean Lose Nearly US$7 Billion a Year Due to Electricity Curtailment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>In 2024, around 53,000 GWh of renewable energy went ungenerated annually<\/em> <em>due to weather conditions, transmission system constraints, and demand restrictions.<\/em><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>This is equivalent to 3.2% of the total generation produced each year<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To reduce these losses<\/strong>, OLACDE proposes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Using more robust power planning models that make it possible to size the expansion of the renewable generation fleet more precisely, in line with weather conditions, demand growth and seasonality, transmission constraints, and other variables.<\/li>\n<li>Developing demand management models at the hourly and seasonal level.<\/li>\n<li>Fostering international integration around electricity needs by making use of exportable surplus.<\/li>\n<li>Promoting distributed generation.<\/li>\n<li>Installing storage systems<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>See the full document at the following link:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.OLACDE.org\/publicaciones\/dto-2025-010-vertimientos-de-energia-renovable\/\"> https:\/\/www.OLACDE.org\/publicaciones\/dto-2025-010-vertimientos-de-energia-renovable\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024, around 53,000 GWh of renewable energy went ungenerated annually due to weather conditions, transmission system constraints, and demand restrictions. This is equivalent to 3.2% of the total generation produced each year. To reduce these losses, OLACDE proposes: Using more robust power planning models that make it possible to size the expansion of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":20384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20636,"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20383\/revisions\/20636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}