In terms of demand projections, the Ministry of Energy and Mines estimates that electricity demand will increase between 5.6% and 7.4% per year between 2007-2015.

Since then, the company has been burdened by government policies requiring that we buy electricity from unregulated power producers regardless of demand projections.

(f) modelling the X factors to produce a price path for the basket of Network Tariffs whereby an efficient distributor, based on the demand projection, can be expected to earn the benchmark revenue;

According to the demand projections prepared by the Superintendencia de Electricidad (SE), the generation capacity reserve will be insufficient by 2009 as it will fall below the recommended 10% if no new capacity is developed.

They base their claims on several reports that estimate lower demand projections.

Ecology Action of Oswego, the citizen interveners with which I was active, provided demand projections that considered price and that have proved to be accurate.

Ceding to increasing opposition, Duguid proposes to offset increased power demand through improvement to transmission lines and cites higher demand projections for electricity in the area when the plant had been proposed four years earlier.