Guidelines for a regional electricity market model in the Southern Cone

The present work analyzes the experiences of electric integration in Latin America and the Caribbean, which had the main objective of maximizing social benefit. The projects developed in South America were : i) MERCOSUR, which remained without further progress than a mere energy interconnection and complementarity, and ii) UNASUR, which is currently reviving the desires of a true integration. For their part, the Andean countries formed the CAN, where their progress does not go beyond bilateral electricity exchange agreements; And on the other hand, SICA is in Central America, where it could be said that if there is an integration of electric markets. Each integration model examined its level of progress and identified the solutions reached and some barriers to its development. It was found that there is a history of cooperation and exchanges of electricity between the countries of the Southern Cone, which can be considered as the fundamental bases for integration, identifying the hydroelectric plants ITAIPU, YACYRETA and SALTO GRANDE, and the conversion networks at the border. The work proposes to create a SIESUR Electric Link, where the potential of electricity exchanges between agents of the region, coordinated by MESUR, can be exploited by replicating the guidelines proposed by SICA.