Overview
- On Tuesday the Energy and Mines minister announced a government-led reorganization of state utility Electro Oriente and the appointment of a new board to address Iquitos’s repeated outages.
- The government is preparing a supreme decree to authorize COES, the national system operator, to run the isolated Iquitos grid so new generators can bid into dispatch and reduce reliance on a single operator.
- Electro Oriente’s new board president said the company is prioritizing maintenance and unit recovery and expects to add about 16.5 megawatts of capacity by the end of 2026 to ease short-term shortages.
- Minem also signaled medium- and long-term moves including relaunching a coastal LNG regasification terminal and pursuing a roughly 600 km Moyobamba–Iquitos transmission line to end the city’s electrical isolation.
- Officials launched temporary fuel‑supply rules for Loreto and are rolling out BID-backed rural electrification projects to reach tens of thousands of people, measures meant to reduce near-term risk and improve service for households and businesses.