National Electrical Corporation

" The crises are opportunities of cambio." Venezuela in spite of being a country petroleum producer and as it express it very well finanzas.com is in a crisis of the power sector. To Many still it costs to think that Venezuela to them being an attractive country by black gold, and source of greater heavy and extra-heavy crude petroleum provision, besides having the value of the economic liter of gasoline anywhere in the world, with a cost of 0.04 dollar by each, confronts this crisis of electrical energy. According to official numbers, the electrical energy demand in Venezuela surpasses in about 1,000 MW the daily generation, that goes up to around the 16,200 MW. The energy crisis has taken to rationings of energy in all the territory and the president of the National Electrical Corporation have already been several important blackouts (Corpoelec) has indicated the possibility of getting worse cut measures of the electrical provision in fundamental productive activities for the development of the country, as it is the case of basic industries and mining of Guayana, besides the commercial manufacture and centers. The National Center of Management (Cng), technical organ of the sector, informed in its daily bulletin that from the 24 of December to the 3 of January (date of update of the registry) the plant Ramon Lagoon (Zulia) maintains the unit out of service number 7, stopping contributing to the system approximately 125 megavatios (Mw). Also the plant Josefa Joaquina Sanchez (Tacoa) of the Electricity of Caracas (EDC) reported the exit of unit 8 from the 24 to the 29 of December; the 30 were all their operative machines and from the 2 of January unit 7 is inactive, reserving the injection to the system of around 350 Mw. Both generating ones are not producing near 475 Mw the certain thing, that from by the end of the 2009 it has come presenting/displaying the rationing, of the electrical energy in all the country and one stays in both months that they go of the year of the 2010, does not perceive solution immediately and it has generated displeased, protests in all the cities of the country, but especially in the Capital, Caracas, that have been affected before the measures of the government when establishing plans of rationing until of cuatros hours. .