[Electricity with solar power plant] Masisea (Ucayali) starts construction of solar plant that will benefit 647 families

The project will be financed by the Ministry of Energy and Mines. It has been supported since 2019 by the GestionCC project of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

The Climate Change Management Support Project (GestiónCC) was completed in September 2020. As a contribution to Peru’s climate commitment it promoted liaison between central government and the regions. In 2019, at the beginning of Phase 2, the project started to support the management of a solar power plant in the Ucayali region, which was later to become a model of energy sustainability for other communities in the Amazon that are off the grid.

In the first stage, SDC realised that the solar plant would have a substantial impact mainly on Masisea’s socio-economic life, because it would provide electricity 24 hours a day. This would allow small and medium enterprises to start up that would use the district’s resources and transform them into finished products, and create jobs for skilled and unskilled labour.

The GestiónCC Project support for the Masisea District Municipality

GestiónCC provided technical assistance for the project «Improvement of Electricity Service through Solar Power Plant in Masisea, Coronel Portillo, Ucayali Region» (Proyecto Central Solar Masisea), to install a solar power plant with an installed capacity of 524.88 kWp, guaranteeing the continuous local demand (24 hours) for 20 years. The project is aligned with the energy sector mitigation measure «Electricity supply with renewable energy resources in areas not connected to the grid» of the Peruvian NDC and will reduce about 348.51 tCO₂eq. tons of CO2 per year by replacing diesel generators (currently operating for four hours per day).

Use this link to download the technical dossier of the Masisea solar power plant project, which shows the main conceptual and technical items developed as an example for potential replication of similar projects. It also shows the lessons learned by the authorities that identified the gaps and the public issues to be resolved in order to identify, formulate and develop the Masisea project.

The power plant construction began in March. Find out more details in the article written by Andrea Ramírez in the on-line newspaper Ímpetu.

Masisea residents have electricity from the solar power plant

Editorial Ímpetu – Andrea Ramírez      2 March, 2022

The residents of Masisea will finally have electricity 24 hours a day. The Masisea District Municipality is going to build a solar power plant, financed by the Ministry of Energy and Mines. Mayor Manuel Dreyfus Ríos announced the news at a press conference.

The project will benefit 647 households, or over 3,200 inhabitants of Masisea. The budget allocated for the execution of the work is S/15,245,832.

The municipality specified that the Electro Verde consortium will be the contractor in charge of implementing the project, which will take 240 calendar days (8 months).

Continuous electricity will reactivate the economy of many households in Masisea, and will turn this district into an environmental conservation tourist attraction, by using renewable energy as a source of electricity.

The solar power plant project will be built in the La Molina neighbourhood, which has a geographical area of 12 hectares and is located behind the district stadium.

Electro Ucayali will be responsible for charging for the electricity service. Currently, Masisea has this service for only four hours a day, and has no electricity meters.

The residents of Masisea themselves will provide the unskilled labour for construction, just as they have for building roads and pavements and repairing schools.

The mayor did not specify the start-date of the work: «Once the contract is signed with the winning company, the countdown will begin for the execution of the project, which is expected to be completed by the end of this year,» he said.

Source: The Climate Change Management Support Project (GestiónCC) / Editorial Impetu (complete article in Spanish)

Useful links:
FS Climate Change Management Support Project GestionCC
Web Climate Change Management Support Project GestionCC

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