Brazil's government is studying energy integration plans with its neighbors in South America, especially Peru, according to Hermes Chipp, director of national grid operator ONS.
"There's a huge potential to be explored, mostly from Peru," he said in Rio de Janeiro at a power forum.
Brazil has 8.8GW in interconnections on the continent with Argentina (2.2GW), Paraguay (6.35GW), Uruguay (70MW) and Venezuela (200MW).
Studies are underway to develop an additional 9.5GW through new interconnections with Argentina (1.2GW), Peru (7.8GW) and Uruguay (500MW).
Brazil previously has cited plans to develop binational hydro dams in neighboring countries.
"The studies in Peru are still in preliminary stages and there's nothing concrete yet. It's something the government is still debating," Chipp told reporters.
"What needs to be developed immediately is the Brazil-Argentina integration. It already exists and we need to increase it even further, not only for emergency situations," he said.
Brazil agreed to export 800MW-1.5GW of electricity to Argentina in June-August this year. In return, Argentina exported electricity to Brazil in September-November. Brazil's government later closed a similar power swap deal with Uruguay.
"We need to improve our import-export process, taking into account the price offer and the volume of energy in the border areas of each system," the ONS director said.
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