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Energy Planning in Latin America: A Brief Review of Selected Countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

T. Owen Carroll ,
Romir Chatterjee  and
Vinod Mubayi
T. Owen Carroll
Affiliation:
SUNY at Stony Brook
Romir Chatterjee
Affiliation:
SUNY at Stony Brook
Vinod Mubayi
Affiliation:
Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Present conditions in the international energy market and the problems they pose for Latin America hardly need emphasis, especially the uncertainty with respect to the availability and price of specific forms like oil. These concerns are, of course, aggravated by the need to respond to the short-term severe dislocations in the energy market, while at the same time taking coherent steps toward long-term solutions of national energy problems. Indeed, how should oil importing countries offset price increases, which exacerbate national deficits and debt service; deal with inflation, which raises the cost of developing indigenous resources; and successfully increase exports, when a number of other countries around the world are pursuing similar export expansion policies? While in broad terms the international energy market imposes a set of constraints upon all Latin America, there is a wide variety of responses among the countries themselves. The oil importing countries (Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Brazil) face a set of problems different from that of more-or-less self sufficient nations (Argentina, Colombia), which is in turn quite different from the major oil exporter (Venezuela). The needs of each country are, therefore, a combination of the international context and the specific situation within a country, and this is reflected in the nature of their energy planning and policy institutions.

Type
Symposium: Energy Policy in Latin America
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , 1982 , pp. 148 - 172
Copyright
Copyright © 1982 by the University of Texas Press

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Notes

Sources for table: Energy statistics were compiled from Balanço Energéticos Nacional 1979 (Ministerio das Minas e Energia, Brasil), Colombia Today (Colombia Information Service, New York), Peru/United States Cooperative Energy Assessment (Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York), Energy and Public Policy, 1970–1990 (Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica), Energy and Development in Central America (Energy/Development International, New York). Economic indicators from P. F. Palmedo et al., “Energy Needs, Uses, and Resources in Developing Countries” (prepared for the United States Agency for International Development by the Policy Analysis Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York), March 1978.

1. Data for Brazil are taken from A. de Oliveira, et al., “Cenários Energéticos Para O Brasil” (Área Interdisciplinar de Energia e Grupo de Trabalho de Energia, COPPE/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Março 1979; K. Erickson, “Brazil Energy Profile,” in K. Stunkel, ed., National Energy Profiles (New York: Praeger Publishing Company, 1981); Balanço Energéticos Nacional 1979 (Ministerio das Minas e Energia, Brasil).

2. Data for Costa Rica are from P. F. Palmedo et al., “Energy and Development in Central America” (Setauket, New York: Energy/Development International), February 1980.

3. Data for Peru are from “Peru/United States Cooperative Energy Assessment,” 4 vols. (Upton, New York: Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1978).

4. Data for Jamaica are from P. F. Palmedo et al., “An Overview of Energy Strategies for Jamaica” (Setauket, New York: Energy/Development International), May 1981; W. R. Ashby, “Energy and Public Policy, 1970–1990” (Kingston: Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica), October 1980; A. Z. Mian, “Jamaica—Preliminary Energy Forecast, 1978–1982” (Kingston: Energy Division/Ministry of Mining and Natural Resources), February 1978.

5. Data for Colombia taken from Colombia Today (New York: Colombia Information Service) and F. Niering, Jr., “Seeking a Broad Energy Base,” Petroleum Economist (March 1978).

6. This approach is detailed in M. Beller, ed., Sourcebook for Energy Assessment, BNL 50483 (Upton, New York: Brookhaven National Laboratory), December 1975. A version of the model for developing country use is reported in A. Reisman and R. Malone, Less Developed Countries Energy System Network Simulator, LDC-ESNS (Upton, New York: Brookhaven National Laboratories), April 1978.