What is Cenace and what are its functions?

What is Cenace?

This body describes itself as a decentralized public, whose objective is to exercise Operational Control of the National Electrical System (SEN); the operation of the Wholesale Electricity Market and guarantee impartiality in access to the National Transmission Network and the General Distribution Networks.

“As an Independent System Operator, it carries out its functions under the principles of efficiency, transparency and objectivity, meeting the criteria of quality, reliability, continuity, security and sustainability in the operation and control of the National Electrical System,” he adds.

Cenace is responsible for formulating the expansion and modernization programs of the National Transmission Network and the General Distribution Networks, which if authorized by the Ministry of Energy (Sener) are incorporated into the Electrical System Development Program. National.

What are you doing?

Cenace is the organization in charge of guaranteeing the supply of electricity when the population needs it.

To do this, it controls the amount of energy produced in power plants with elements such as wind, sun, water, among others.

When the energy is produced, Cenace controls, from its operation centers, that it is transported by the high-tension cables of the National Transmission Network.

This is how the energy reaches the distribution networks that supply the consumption centers through the cables that support the cables of the light poles.

For this process to be carried out, Cenace must carry out different control actions that ensure the balance between the electrical energy that is produced and that which is consumed at the moment, since electrical energy cannot be stored in large quantities.

This organization also forecasts the electrical energy needs for the following years, in order to guarantee that future generations have electrical service.