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Final j belt energy_asce_2008_august 2
1. The Energy Sector in Cuba:
Financial and Economic Considerations
Juan A. B. Belt
Director
Office of Infrastructure and Engineering
USAID
Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Association for the
Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE), Miami, Florida
August 2008
The opinions expressed in this presentation are those of the author and
do not represent the views of the US Government
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Disclaimer
• The opinions expressed in this
presentation are those of the author & do
not necessarily represent the views of the
US Government
• All information comes from public sources
available in the Internet
• Special thanks & appreciation to my
friend & colleague Luis Velazquez for his
crucial support in the preparation of this
paper
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Outline
1. Methodology
2. Comparisons with
selected countries in
Latin America
3. Electricity trends in Cuba
4. Financial & economic
aspects of the electricity
sector
5. Sector reform during a
transition
6. Conclusions
“Communism is Soviet power plus the
electrification of the whole country”
Cuba has continued to
ignore financial and
economic aspects
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LNG Plants
(Sherritt)
Thermal
Plants
Diesel Plants
Gensets
Domestic
production
PDVSA Imports 102.0
Refineries
35.0 CO
68.0 CO
51.1 RP
24.5 LNG
15.9 Diesel
53.4 FO
16.4 Diesel
Oil and Gas Flows 2007
('000 bpd, MM cfd)
Power
Generation
(17,621 GWh)
Transportation,
Industrial,
Residential, and
Other Fuels
33.2 RP
2,797 GWh
404 GWh
11,099 GWh
3,321 GWh
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Liquid Fuels: Supply & Uses 2007
Liquid Fuel Supply bbl/day % of Total
Domestic production 68,000 40%
Imports 102,000 60%
Total supply 170,000 100%
Liquid Fuel Uses
Power generation 85,700 50%
Transport 84,300 50%
Total uses 170,000 100%
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GDP/Capita & Electricity 2007
• Chile & Costa Rica have increased GDP/capita much
faster than Cuba in 1959-2007; social indicators are
similar in the 3 countries (Carmelo Mesa-Lago book)
• DR has caught up and its GDP/capita is similar to
Cuba’s
• All countries essentially have universal coverage
• Electricity consumption/capita is similar in Cuba & DR
GDP/capita ElectricityCountry
PPP
(US$)
Nominal
(US$)
Coverage
(%)
Consumption
(kWh/capita)
Chile 14,400 9,874 99 3,062
Costa Rica 13,500 5,525 99 1,730
Cuba 4,500 3,958 95 1,300
Dominican Rep 5,865 3,789 92 1,067
Source: CIA – The World Factbook – https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-
factbook/
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Union Electrica: Labor Efficiency Comparisons
Indicator
Costa
Rica
DR Cuba
Residential connections
per employee
260 200 111
Electricity sold per
employee (MWh/year)
2,837 881 409
Employees per '000
residential connections
3.8 5.0 9.0
Chile has only 0.7 employees per 1,000 connections
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Union Electrica: Total Unit Costs (G, T & D)
Crude Oil Price $/bbl 87 100 120 140
Fuel price (80% fuel oil,
20% diesel)
$/bbl 112 125 145 165
Cost per kWh sold $/kWh 0.310 0.336 0.376 0.417
Cost per kWh generated $/kWh 0.244 0.265 0.297 0.328
• Oil & diesel accounts for 70-80% of generation costs; Cuba 5th
in the World in
2003 after Yemen, Iraq, Benin & Jamaica in use of liquid fuels for generation
• Labor efficiency very low
• Technical losses high (16%)
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Reform Takes Time & Requires Planning
Activity Description Yr 1 Yr 2 Yr 3 Yr 4 Yr 5
Transition begins
Infrastructure Strategy & Legal
Framework
Draft strategy
Develop consensus
Draft laws (power, telecom & water)
Enact laws
Establish regulatory agency
Power sector
Emergency Rehabilitation Program
Operation contracts
Unbundle / corporatize
Adjust rates
Sell DISTCOS
Sell GENCOS
Could be
reduced to 3
years
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Generation
• Cuba needs to diversify energy sources to reduce
reliance on liquid fuels
• For new generation capacity Cuba should promote
greater use of
1. Gas (will depend on domestic availability)
2. Coal (will require bulk import handling facilities)
3. Biofuels including bagazze (would depend largely on
revitalization of sugar industry)
4. Wind (becoming more competitive today)
5. Mini-hydro (fairly limited)
6. Solar (costs are still high)
• Tariff free imports of machinery & equipment for
renewable generation & reasonable tax breaks could
reduce over reliance on liquid fuels
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Conclusions
• Lack of reliable data makes analysis very difficult
• Power sector suffered since the collapse of USSR
but now blackouts not as common as in 2004-06
• UE rates do not cover economic costs
• UE: expensive fuel, low labor productivity & high
losses
• UEs economic loss almost $3 billion or around 6%
of GDP (oil price $140/bbl)
• Reform to promote private participation would be
necessary during a transition
• Well-designed system of incentives to decrease
reliance on liquid fuels should be implemented
18. Any questions?
Juan A. B. Belt
Director
Office of Infrastructure and Engineering (I&E)
Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, &
Trade (EGAT)
US Agency for International Development
(USAID)
E-mail: jubelt@usaid.gov
Notes de l'éditeur
FO – Fuel Oil
RP – Refined Products
CO – Crude Oil
LNG – Liquefied Natural Gas
Sherritt’ Gas-Fired Plants are located in Boca de Jaruco, Puerto Escondido and Varadero for a combined total of 376 MW, expected to increase to 526 MW in 2009 with the addition of a new 150 MW CC unit at Boca de Jaruco
LNG was estimated at the rate of 1 CF of LNG ~ 1,020 BTU, and 1 kWh of electricity = 3,413 BTU. Plant capacity of 450 MW assumed to operate at 80%.
See Sherritt Annual Report 2007 – http://www.sherritt.com/doc08/files/financials/2007%20Annual%20Report/2007_SIC_AR.pdf
Sales Revenue was estimated on the basis of:
An estimate of the number of domestic and foreign customers and their respective consumption levels.
Unit prices assumed at different currencies and uniform application throughout the entire customers’ base.
An initial currency conversion rate of 1 CUP per 1 USD. A sensitivity analysis was later performed for different exchange rates.
Electricity consumption levels for all consumer groups were increased by 3% with respect to the levels of 2006. The official report Anuario Estadístico used the same approach for 2007.
Fuel consumption for electricity production was assumed at productivity values between 12 and 15kWh/gallon of fuel. Metric tons of fuel consumed – as reported by the Anuario Estadistico 2007 – were converted to volumetric units of barrels of oil assuming densities between 7.5 and 9 barrels per ton of oil.
Capital stock was estimated at an average replacement cost of $850/kW of installed nominal power generation capacity in 2007 US$. Transmission lines were valued at an average replacement cost of $29,000/km. No investments were assumed on transformers and substations. Annual capital costs were discounted at a 10% rate and a 20-year period used for similar infrastructure projects.
O&M costs were assumed at 1.5% of the annual capital costs.
Fuel and Crude oil prices, and refining margins were based on US figures reported by EIA.
Think more about this concept
VA by power sector negligible. How can this be? Need to discuss
Energy as % of GDP at different exchange rates
#1 Develop Infrastructure Strategy. USG should support reformers
POSSIBLE ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE
6-7 Private DISTCOS: regulated
10 private GENCOS; maybe one or more coal-fired base load plants; wind power; unregulated, except for environmental concerns; contracts reviewed by regulator
One state-owned transmission company
One market operator: government or owned my market participants (“club”)
AGENDA FOR ACTION
Plan A: support UE to improve control systems to introduce discipline & minimize asset stripping and tunneling
If A not feasible, Plan B: performance-based management contract to introduce discipline & minimize asset stripping and tunneling
Minimum investment to “keep the lights on”
Develop laws, regulations and institutions to encourage private participation
Establish regulatory agency separate from policy ministry