Plan de Reducción de Pérdidas Comerciales de la Empresa Eléctrica de Guayaquil para el Perioso 2009-2020

Abstract

This paper analyzes a "Plan to Reduce Commercial Losses of the Electric Company of Guayaquil for the Period 2009-2020" This plan was developed in order to reduce energy losses of the power distributor of Guayaquil, a private company formerly called Categ (Corporation for the temporary administration of electric power in Guayaquil), from 21.10% in December 2008 to 13.5% at the end of 2020. With this objective, the plan focused on non-technical losses, which represented 60% of total losses at the end of 2008 and took into account the investments the Company was able to do in the period projected and the actions it should take to achieve the objective. The results obtained in implementing the actions proposed in the Plan exceeded expectations mainly due to the following factors: 1) From June 2009 the Company was declared a public company; 2) As a public company, the Company could invest more than projected; 3) he percentage of losses was affected by the re-entry of so-called Great Consumers to the billing system of the Company and the change in the methodology of calculation to determine losses. Anyway, the annual plans prepared by the Electric Company that distributes and sells electricity in Guayaquil, are still based to this date, in the actions described in this action plan and, of course, with some variations due to technological advances and new other circumstances.