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Ecuadorian Debt Conversion Program - Spain supports hydroelectric projects
The Foreign Debt Conversion Program with Spain was signed in March 2005 with the objective of financing social investment projects for a total of US$50 million, 60% of which will be used to support hydroelectric projects. Management of the fund’s resources will be in the hands of the Andean Development Corporation (CAF) which will receive and analyze the proposals.
The participants in this important initiative were hydroelectric projects of medium capacity (average 5 – 30 MW), which have pre-feasibility, feasibility and/or design studies. They had the opportunity to exchange opinions with the members of the Technical Committee, the Ecuadorian industrial sector, production chambers, among others, in order to have more alternatives for implementing clean generation projects.The purpose of the Exchange Program is to create synergies between the initiative and private investment and the Fund contribution in favor of the less favored sectors. The projects will take the form of joint ventures (sectional governments and local and/or foreign investors), which must necessarily be economically and socially sustainable over time. As a result, majority participation by the private sector in this scheme is fundamental in order to avoid problems of efficiency in the operation and maintenance of the hydroelectric projects.
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