General considerations
Text extracted from the executive report made by the consulting firm Proinsa-year 2006, for the energy secretariat of the nation-program "PERMER"
"Study to improve knowledge and promotion of Hydroelectric OFFER in small exploitations"
"In this report, the results obtained by PROINSA Proyectos de Ingeniería SA during the work carried out for the" Study to improve knowledge and promotion of hydroelectric supply in small exploitations ", in accordance with the provisions of the Contract signed with the Secretary of Energy of the Nation.
In Argentina, renewable energies, including that from large hydroelectric plants, participate with about 10% of the internal supply of primary energy.
During the course of this work, the documentation belonging to 116 Small Hydroelectric Exploitation (PAH) was analyzed, equivalent to 64% of the total of more than 180 PAH projects that exist throughout the country, according to the basic documentation supplied to PROINSA by the Ministry of Energy.
The 116 PAH studied by PROINSA represent a Power supply of 434,000 KW and an Average Annual Energy of 1,908 GWh and are equivalent to around 2% of the Total Installed Power and 3% of the current electricity consumption of the country.
Electric power is a basic social need, often absent in communities relatively far from the main urban centers. That is why studying the possibility of providing energy to low consumption centers through the construction of small or medium-sized hydroelectric plants is of great interest, especially where there is a nearby water resource, which can be used.
The Argentine Republic is a signatory of International Agreements related to the defense of the Environment, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, aimed at solving the problems that occur with air pollution and that lead to Warming Global.
The Small Hydroelectric Exploits represent a sustainable supply alternative, relatively simple to build and operate, which is why it is interesting to integrate them through Regional Strategic Plans that contemplate the best environmental alternatives and are included within the multiple use of water resources.
The main characteristic of PAHs is that they have a local geographic influence, or at most regional, in energy supply, depending on its magnitude, with a direct influence on the standard of living conditions of local or regional communities, which transcends the purely energetic to be integrated into the economic and social development.
In many cases, the supply of energy ceases to be a development factor as isolated generation is required, generally with high-cost fossil fuels, which must be subsidized in order to provide the service.
Starting from small hydroelectric plants, an energy supply plan can be achieved to which other aspects are associated that make the integral development of the available resources in each Region, achieving Social and Economic advantages, enabling productive development, with genuine growth and job creation..
From the environmental point of view, the hydroelectric generation of these low-power uses is clean, non-polluting and is also renewable, therefore, any development that is carried out from it will be sustainable, at least from the supply point of view. energy and hydraulic ”.
What to do in the province of CHUBUT?
How would the challenge be faced
Objective: Implementation of a provincial program.
Work premise: This proposal responds to the idea of strongly promoting the development of the National Plan provided for by Law 26190 and called "Regime of national promotion for the use of renewable sources of energy for the production of electricity"
Therefore, the idea outlined or sketched here has as its objective the possibility of building a Regional Water Microturbination System (SIREMHI), to be installed and implanted in a large part (most) of the existing water courses in the Andean Region of Chubut, obviously in those in which the hydric and hydraulic conditions of the riverbed, topographic slopes (jumps and unevenness) and exploitation flows (regimes), allow and empower it.
Methodologically, this network or system of microturbines of different sizes and generation capacities would form a “pull” of hydroelectric production that would allow complementing the current supply to the northwest of Chubut from the Futaleufú Dam and fundamentally supplying the supply in the case of scheduled cuts or accidents on the 132 KV line (Esquel-El Coihue section) or the current medium and low voltage transportation system (33Kw and 13.2 Kw), a system that is partly old, dangerous and fragile; as well as capable of facing the marked growth rates of future regional demands, and even "exporting" the surplus balances of self-sufficiency outside the region, thus generating the existence of a sufficient supply,safe and even profitable due to its size (economy of scale) with the consequent lowering of rates due to the cost mix effect (it would be reducing the costs of the stage of transport by generation "in situ"), as economically profitable due to original pecuniary income as a result of the extra zone energy sale. All this without taking into account that the "generous availability" of energy infrastructure would allow the State to induce the establishment of capital and economic activities with a "domino" effect (for example, installation of "IQF" freezing plants (carousel or belts for freezing individual pieces) for fine fruit, cold rooms,installation of electric induction furnaces for melting recycled glass or for the "fluidization" of PET containers and other elements obtained from the recovery and recycling of materials from MSW)
Another of the favorable issues is the cultural reconversion of the population's energy consumption habits, because as in other areas of the world such as Sweden, Finland, Austria, Germany, the Spanish Cantabrian Mountains, Canada and the Northwest of the United States of North America, substantial savings could be made in fuelwood and gas for
heating and cooking in homes, thus collaborating to avoid impacts and liabilities on the biosphere and being able to allocate woody materials as well as hydrocarbon fossil fuels in other uses than the “burning” of them, establishing an equation positive in favor of “renewable energies” versus the progressive depletion of “non-renewable”.
In provincial and regional matters, the incorporation of a hydroelectric micro-turbine network would gradually replace a good part of the thermal generation that still exists in many of the mountain and foothill localities, as well as in several of the School Villages currently assisted by generator sets.
At the strengths points described so far in the objectives, we must consider that any type of "pull or package" of new contributions to electricity generation that can be incorporated; it would mean an increase in the national supply in a market that is currently insufficient to satisfy the new emerging demands of population growth and economic growth (GDP) of the country (the latter in the order of 9% per year for 2011).
How the program would be induced and organized from the provincial state
The Government of the Province of Chubut would implement a program for the creation of an infrastructure to generate hydroelectricity by microturbine, approached and designed from an interdisciplinary team, made up of the Undersecretary of Public Services, the Provincial Institute of Water IPA, the Secretariat of Technological Innovation and the Ministry of Production), obviously having to be assisted and supported in prima facie by the Ministry of Planning of the Nation, with the accompaniment of the corresponding Ministry of Energy, the support of the Cordilleran Municipalities (integrated and united in hydroelectric consortiums by Basins Hídricas), the eventual participation of private mechano-metallurgical and services capital, which is interested in or attracted by the undertaking (especially in relation to development,manufacture and supply of the different types of microturbines, since different types of mills would be used according to the necessary hydraulic adaptations of each turbine site or point), and fundamentally with the assistance and technical advice of institutions specialized in microturbine designs (such as the Laboratory of Hydraulic Microturbines of the Balseiro Institute, the Bariloche Foundation, the INVAP, the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Lomas de Zamora, the University of Comahue, the University of Patagonia SJ Bosco, the National Technological University, the University Chubut (¿?), the National University of Misiones, CONYCET, CFI and fundamentally the National Institute of Industrial Technology INTIsince different types of mills would be used according to the necessary hydraulic adaptations of each place or point of turbination), and fundamentally with the assistance and technical advice of institutions specialized in microturbine designs (such as the Laboratory of Hydraulic Microturbines of the Balseiro Institute, the Bariloche Foundation, INVAP, the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Lomas de Zamora, the University of Comahue, the University of Patagonia SJ Bosco, the National Technological University, the University of Chubut (?), the National University of Misiones, of CONYCET, of the CFI and fundamentally of the National Institute of Industrial Technology INTIsince different types of mills would be used according to the necessary hydraulic adaptations of each place or point of turbination), and fundamentally with the assistance and technical advice of institutions specialized in microturbine designs (such as the Laboratory of Hydraulic Microturbines of the Balseiro Institute, the Bariloche Foundation, INVAP, the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Lomas de Zamora, the University of Comahue, the University of Patagonia SJ Bosco, the National Technological University, the University of Chubut (?), the National University of Misiones, of CONYCET, of the CFI and fundamentally of the National Institute of Industrial Technology INTIand fundamentally with the assistance and technical advice of institutions specialized in microturbine designs (such as the Hydraulic Microturbine Laboratory of the Balseiro Institute, the Bariloche Foundation, INVAP, the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Lomas de Zamora, the University of Comahue, the SJ Bosco University of Patagonia, the National Technological University, the University of Chubut (?), The National University of Misiones, CONYCET, the CFI and fundamentally the National Institute of Industrial Technology INTIand fundamentally with the assistance and technical advice of institutions specialized in microturbine designs (such as the Hydraulic Microturbine Laboratory of the Balseiro Institute, the Bariloche Foundation, INVAP, the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Lomas de Zamora, the University of Comahue, the SJ Bosco University of Patagonia, the National Technological University, the University of Chubut (?), The National University of Misiones, CONYCET, the CFI and fundamentally the National Institute of Industrial Technology INTIthe University of Patagonia SJ Bosco, the National Technological University, the University of Chubut (?), the National University of Misiones, CONYCET, the CFI and fundamentally the National Institute of Industrial Technology INTIthe University of Patagonia SJ Bosco, the National Technological University, the University of Chubut (?), the National University of Misiones, the CONYCET, the CFI and fundamentally the National Institute of Industrial Technology INTI
How the program would be administered and executed
In principle, the program would be implemented from the Provincial State, through a Coordinating Body that could depend on one of the State Secretaries or Undersecretaries (Ministry of Production, or Undersecretary of Public Services, or the ENRE, or the IPA or the a New Area to be created) as already said in the previous point. It would be geographically subdivided according to the different Basins and Sub-basins of the Province and according to current legislation, they could be formed and / or constituted under the figure of HYDROELECTRIC CONSORTIUM (for example: Consorcio Hidroeléctrico de la Cuenca del Puelo, Consorcio Hidroeléctrico de la Cuenca del Futaleufú, Hydroelectric Consortium of the Carrenleufu-Corcovado Basin, Hydroelectric Consortium of the Pico River Basin, etc.).
These Consortia would be legally classified as State Companies or as Non-State Public Entities (depending on whether they are 100% state capital or if they have the possibility of issuing shares and incorporating private capital as a minority) as is regulated through national laws No. 19,550, 20,705, 22,016 and 23,696.
Whatever figure is adopted and which will require the issuance of a provincial law of creation. These consortia would be integrated between the Provincial State and the municipalities with ejidos involved or included within each of the respective Water Basins.
These corporate participations would allow the “proprietary partners”, including the municipalities involved, to be able to collect or receive, on the one hand, the hydroelectric royalties derived from the right for the relevant hydraulic generation (royalty is the right of the “king”, that is, of the State as owner ownership of the resource, even if it is of public use and utility), as well as eventually receiving the possible dividends corresponding to the profits produced by the sale of energy, not only in the case of a local / regional system or in the case of a national integrated system). This associative figure, beyond the commercial and administrative corporate legislation stated,It is protected and contemplated by the Provincial Constitution and by the Organic Law of Municipal Corporations (ex 3098).
The individuality and the group of these Consortia would be “controlled” by the ENRE (ex law 4341), which would be the legal entity with the capacity to control and control the hydroelectric generators of Chubut.
What would be the procedure regarding the "Legal use of water"
On the one hand, the data collection instances and the hydrological and hydraulic studies of each of the water courses must be foreseen and contemplated, in order to know their conditions and characteristics for their most suitable hydroelectric use under the system. micro-turbine, which in principle could be conceived or conceptualized through the use of pipe systems or conductive pipes of only part of the flow of each watercourse, with subsequent return or restitution to the torrent, of the modules used in a “non-consumptive way ”(Borrowed and not consumed).
Note: See the model of the Himalayas made by the ALTERNATE HYDRO ENERGY CENTER, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE & GOVERNMENT OF UTTARANCHAL, DEHRADUN, INDIA; the “Lago Escondido” Hydroelectric Project, the hydroelectric supply project of the Neumeyer Mountain Refuge, both in the Province of Río Negro.
These pipeline microturbine systems, which are conceived as "step" generation, have the advantage that "several uses" can be carried out in the same water course, being systems with very low environmental impact.(In this project, the watercourse is not “dammed, reservoir or dam”; no “water modules” are “subtracted”; they do not affect the fauna or flora; they do not produce visual impact, they can already be “hidden or concealed” the pipes under the vegetation or burying sections of the same and the respective "mouth intakes" can be hidden between the rocks of the channel. It should not be forgotten that they are mountain rivers that are characterized (in this area) by having routes that do not they exceed 20 km in length between their springs and their mouths and have slopes of 1200 to 1600 meters between both points.
Returning to the use of water, after the surveys and studies pre-mentioned and provided for in current legislation), the IPA in its capacity as Water Enforcement Authority would be the one to grant the "USE CONCESSIONS" as provided for in both Law XVII - Nº 88 (Before Law 5850) that establishes the Provincial Water Policy, its respective
Regulatory Decree, as well as in Law XVII Nº 53 (ex Nº 4148) “Water Code of the Province of Chubut” (Chapters III and VI). and its Regulatory Decree and Decree No. 1567/09 (which establishes the implementation of the Chubut Water Registry)
How the works would be carried out and materialized
Once the “survey and study” of the hydrological and hydraulic characteristics of the watercourses susceptible to having sections for the installation of the hydroelectric microturbine has been carried out and the “inventory by basin” of the microturbinable water courses or sections having been completed, we would proceed to define the “concessibility” characteristics of its use, defining this condition for each of the courses and for each of the sections preselected in the aforementioned inventory and in accordance with the legislation already mentioned.
Simultaneously, in parallel and coincidentally with the completion of the tasks described, each and every one of the Hydroelectric Consortiums, by Basin and / or Sub-Basin (if necessary) should be constituted and formed legally and statutorily in order to obtain the corresponding "Energy Use Concession" of the pre-selected course or section.
After the convergence of the culmination of both tasks mentioned in the "meeting or concurrence node", the pipeline design stage and selection of the different types of hydroelectric generation mills (miniturbines, microturbines and picoturbines) must be carried out, in accordance with the required working conditions (carrying out the Individual Executive Engineering Projects - PEIDI), which once completed or completed.
As of the moment in which the individual "solutions" are available, or by course, or by Sub Basin, or by Basin, the stage of Construction of the Public Energy Work must be implemented, which can be designed by "Administration", by "Public Bidding", as contemplated by traditional legislation or by means of the "Public Works Concession" which contemplates the innovative figure, in this case, of "direct contracting of works with public entities or with state capital companies ”(The latter figure protected by the former provincial law 3234 and its regulatory Decree No. 1754/2001)
The hydroelectric microturbination works would be grouped into two large groups to be taken into account: a) water courses with large slopes (slopes in percent- greater than 3%) and b) water courses with low slopes (slopes in per thousand or less 3%). This subdivision may be subject to changes or modifications of criteria.
The Consortia that obtain or manage to materialize the aforementioned "concession" for microturbine, immediately pass to the status of "Generators" (producers), and must subsequently obtain the status of "transporters" and "distributors", if they so wish. In the event that they also choose to fall within these last two conditions, said consortia must comply with the existing electroduct legislation (national laws No. 19,552 and 24,065, Technical Specifications A and E No. T-80, the corresponding resolutions of the National ENRE and the Law I- Nº 131 of the Province). The tariff tables will depend on the market in which the generation is directed,In other words, if it is directed to the local market, the Deliberative Councils and Public Services of the Province would intervene and if, failing that, it would be directed to the national or international market (Chile), they will be established or approved by the Secretariat of Energy of the Nation and the ENRE.
Conceptual approach of the micro and peak hydroelectric turbine
The present scheme or sketch of implementation of a new provincial program for the hydroelectric use of the Andean rivers and streams through the micro and / or turbinado peak, does not foresee an exhaustive or deep development of the debate on the types of electromechanical devices to be used in each section or in each particular watercourse. Obviously it would be presumptuous to discuss here the various engineering possibilities to be adopted in each case.
One issue that can be cited is that in the Argentine Republic there are a good number of institutions dedicated to studying, researching, developing and advising on the variables and advantages of these types of mills. Undoubtedly, institutions such as: The Balseiro Institute, INVAP, the Microturbine Laboratory of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Comahue, all recognized exponents of the Patagonian Region itself, have the deserved recognition and prestige. The specific areas of the INTI, the National Technological University, the UBA, the University of Lomas de Zamora and even more of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Misiones, whose researchers have developed special microturbines for rivers, can also be considered of excellence. plain,Investigable technology to be applied in part of the Arroyo Esquel, part of the Senguerr River, over the Epuyén River, the Quemquemtreu River and in a large part of the Azul River.
However, what has been discussed so far does not relieve us to point out that a choice should be made between a) Action Microturbines such as Pelton type (free jet) or Turgo type, b) Cross Flow Microturbines of the Michell-Banki type, c) Reaction Microturbines such as Francis type (open chamber or spiral chamber) or Kaplan, Semi Kaplan and Helix type (with axial flow), d) BCT or centrifugal pumps used as turbines (producing reverse rotation) and d) the aforementioned microturbines for plain rivers or low slopes (see table below).
In order to make the best selection of the technology to be applied, the hydraulic studies of rivers and streams should define the net head heights, the ranges of flows to be turbine, the nature of the terrain, the environmental criteria (visual and sound impacts), and fundamentally economic engineering (the costs of equipment, facilities and labor), all parameters that will allow defining the “hydroelectric microturbinability” (feasibility) of the place studied.
Beyond the many and very good works on the subject, existing in our national institutions, there is vast experience, information and technology on the subject in several South American countries, in India (on the Himalayan Chain, in Japan and even more. in Europe (for example, the multiple hydroelectric micro uses in the Pyrenees and the Cantabrian Mountains in Spain or in the Alps involving countries such as Austria, Switzerland, Italy and France)
The possible catalog of hydroelectrically usable water courses in the Chubutense mountain range
The exhaustive and detailed list of the courses and sections of courses that can be used for the hydroelectric peak and micro-turbine potential will emerge from the first stage of the application of the proposed Program, since said research will provide the detailed information arising from the detailed scanning of all the courses of Cordilleran water (absolutely all, that is, both main and secondary) thus making a true Sectorial Water Inventory (part of the Inventory or survey established in paragraph c) of article 12 of Annex A of Law XVII No. 53 "Water Code of the Province of Chubut ”, from its Regulatory Decree, Law XVII-Nº 88 and Decree Nº 1567/09).
Subsequently, a methodological screening (selection) and a prioritization of places by magnitude, influence and conditions would be carried out (making a decision tree) in order to define their priority over time (order of approach and implementation). All this task should be carried out by the water basin, as already stated.
For guidance and illustration (only as an example) the list of water courses to be inventoried would be the following for the Puelo Basin: (description from north to south and not in order of importance)
Province of Río Negro:
A) Puelo-Sub Basin Río Azul Basin
1) Rio Azul Superior
West slope: Aº Encanto Blanco, Aº Azul Alto, Aº Teno, Aº Raquel, Aº Lindo, Rio Motoco or Upper White, Rio Motoco or Middle White
East Slope: Aº Los Cabbage, Aº El Ternero, Middle Quemquemtreu River
Chubut Province:
A) Puelo-Sub Basin Río Azul Basin
1) Middle and Lower Blue River
West Slope: Río Motoco or Blanco Inferior, Río Motoco or Blanco Inferior Inferior (Section where the river flows into the Azul River)
East Slope: Lower Quemquemtreu River (Section where the Río Azul
B) Puelo Basin (outside the Azul River Sub-basin): Aº Las Lágrimas, Aº
Los Hitos, Aº Melo, Aº Bonito, Aº Leon, Aº Puerto Bonito, Aº Blanco.
C) Puelo Basin- Sub Basin of the Turbio River: Turbio River, Alerzal River, Aº
Landslide, Nameless Streams
D) Puelo Basin (outside the Turbio River Sub Basin): Aº Aguja, Aº
Esperanza, Aº Silvia, Aº Ocinao
E) Puelo Basin - Sub Basin of the Epuyén River: Lake Epuyén, Río Alto
Epuyén, Aº Plain Small, Aº Pedregoso Sur, Aº Slate, Aº de las Minas, Aº
Pedregoso Norte, Aº Larena, Aº Espejo or Leiva, Aº Corbata or Catarata, River
Epuyén Middle and Lower sections, Arroyos sin nombre.
Note that the generic denomination of "unnamed streams" appears, because there are precisely a large number of smaller streams, with steep slopes and interesting flows that are not even nominated in the official cartography or private tourist cartography, those that in premium face and naked eye appear as interesting to turbine.
A similar methodology is applicable to the remaining Water Basins of the Andean Region of Chubut or the Chubut Mountain Range (concept applicable from the northernmost Puelo Basin to the Simpson River Basin, which is the southernmost of the province). Let us remember that in total there are six mountain water basins: Lago Puelo, Río Futaleufú, Río Carrenleufú, Río Pico, Río Senguerr and Río Simpson. The headwaters of the Chubut River can also be considered within the Cordillerano-Precordillerano area.
Where to start the program?
Although there are seven outlined Water Basins, concentrating efforts on six of them by virtue of belonging to the mountain range, it would be very significant from the political point of view (without leaving aside the technical aspect) to take as a starting point for the beginning of the Program to the Puelo Lake Basin, for the following geostrategic reasons:
1. The Puelo Lake Basin, in addition to being binational, with the auspicious addition that the “Paso Puelo” should be completed in a short time, which is why Chile would be in a position to acquire electricity to supply the towns of Los Hitos, Segundo Corral, Primer Corral and Llanada Grande (thus being linked by rural road infrastructure and electricity network, part of the Los Lagos Region with the North-northwest of Chubut, thus expanding the markets and the flow of the tourist corridor in both directions but with a strong vector and favorable balance for our province
which currently, together, already exceeds 50,000 inhabitants, with a marked rate of almost exponential population growth and with a strong unsatisfied demand for services. In the Patagonian region, this pole is inserted in a spectacular and propitious “Interland” between the San Carlos de Bariloche-Villa La Angostura-Paso Samoré pole and the Esquel-Trevelin-Corcovado-Paso Futaleufú pole.
3. Both Paso Puelo and a possible power supply line to the Chilean towns mentioned in point 1), together with the geological, tectonic and environmental arguments would create a “dissuasive” climate for the construction by ENDESA of the El Dam. Gate on the Puelo River, an element of high danger for trying to nest it on two active geological faults such as the Puelo River itself (NW-SE) and the so-called Liquiñe-Ofqui (NS) that runs parallel to the edge of the Pacific Ocean between Puerto Ayssen and reaching almost Santiago de Chile (more than 1000 km), on which most of the active and resting volcanoes of Chile Austral are located.
4. For the reason stated in the previous point, the construction of dams for water storage or for hydroelectric generation is not “recommended”, neither on the Chilean side nor on the Argentine side of the Andes Mountains (at least in the section indicated). For this same reason, a hydroelectric microturbine program is recommended to replace a policy of reservoirs and dams.
5. As stated at the beginning of this work, the Andean Region of Parallel 42 has a good but demonstrably “fragile” electricity supply system, which, added to the age and obsolescence of the distribution system, make the operating complex unsatisfactory and insufficient. Issue that can be tempered and even reversed by printing a strong policy of generation "in situ" through hydroelectric use by multiple microturbations of the "interesting" and "numerous" local watercourses.
6. If the corresponding agreements of conjunction and simultaneity of the program were signed with the Province of Río Negro, it would be possible to install a strong image of modernity, solidarity and synchronism (efficiency and effectiveness) that would not only be interesting at the local-regional level, but also also at the national level and even to stimulate the attraction of external technological investments (creating an internationally "beautiful and intelligent" area. Even with the possibility of "attracting" and "facilitating" the creation of a University Campus and the installation of a "cluster "Or" Technological Pole "that would complete an" axis "of excellence in research and development (R + D + I) between Bariloche (INVAP-Balseiro-Fundación Bariloche-Universidad del Comahue) and Esquel (CIEFAP-RTZ-Universidad de Patagonia San Juan Bosco).
7. There are already semi-studied pre-feasibilities (which only have to be rectified and accommodated) for the use of the Motoco or Blanco River in Lago Puelo (In particular, a hydroelectric plant with a power of between 5 and 10 MW which would be located in a very close to demand and could deliver its energy in 33 kV, avoiding high voltage conduits, a matter of difficult insertion in the area due to the consequent environmental impact Prefeasibility studies have also been carried out for Aº El Lindo in El Bolsón- Río Negro, with the COOPERAR Foundation of the Cooperativa de Servicios COOPETEL, which has the corresponding support from the Provincial Government and the National Government, being doomed to materialize the project, the construction of a dam and water intake, in elevation 740 masl,a conduction pipe, a compensating chamber and a pressure pipe and a Hydroelectric Power Plant with 2 Pelton type turbines of 1483 kW.
8. These two projects would be complemented by the Hidden Lake Hydroelectric project, which already has an installed generation capacity of 600 kilowatts, with an immediate expansion to 1 megawatt, and with the possibility of development potential up to 10 to 12 megawatts.. This Project is in the process of interconnection with El Coihue through the construction of a line that links Lake Escondido - El Foyel - Los Repollos - El Maitén
Conclusions
Planning and implementing a Micro and Turbinado Peak Hydroelectric Generation Program in Cordillera Water Courses would be a long-term program, with a strong political and geopolitical bias, with an important stamp of seriousness and with a prospective vision for the next 10 or 15 years.
The reconversion of the habit of consuming non-renewable energy to the new habit of producing renewable energy consumption would change the lifestyle of the mountain range, turning it into an area with a strong environmental protectionist bias (it could even be "suspected" the probability of the use of electric locomotion, using state-of-the-art technological vehicles with the consequent environmental improvement).
Calculating, speculating and analyzing the “domino effect” or the “spillover effect” that the implementation of the proposed program would cause has truly unsuspected scope. Hopefully it can become a reality built by visionary minds with truly statesmanship concepts.
