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David Block (db10@cornell.edu)
Tue, 5 Jul 1994 16:46:11 -0500

The IEEE Power Engineering Review is not on my reading list, but its June
1994 issue features an article, "Latin American Power Policy," that
summarizes a very interesting set of thirteen presentations given by Latin
American nationals. Interspersed with some fairly technical evaluations of
GigaWatts, KiloVolts and the like is a set of commentaries made by
engineers on electrical power in an age of privatization and regional
integration.

The presenters and their papers range from Mexico to the southern cone.
However,among the most interesting to me are those of Ricardo
Mota-Palomino, who analyzes the evolution of regional interconnection in
Central America, Jose Luiz Alqueres of Electrobras whose paper, "Brazil
and the Electrical Interconnections in the Mercosul Region," examines the
melding of technology and policy as the regional consortium takes shape,
and Hugh Rudnick of the Catholic University in Santiago who describes
deregulation of the Chilean power industry in the 1980s and 1990s.

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