Venezuela plans to add 7,400 megawatts to power grid ‘in the medium term’

The Daily Journal.— Venezuela plans to add 7,400 megawatts (MW) of electricity capacity to the National Electric System (SEN) in the medium term through agreements signed this year with U.S.-based General Electric (GE) and Argentina’s Impsa, acting President Delcy Rodríguez said Thursday. Rodríguez announced Fedecámaras’ annual assembly, where she also said the government plans to […]

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Venezuela activates power turbine in Zulia amid blackout crisis

EFE.- Venezuela started up a power turbine in Zulia state, the region hardest hit by blackouts, which will begin supplying electricity within the next 72 hours, government authorities said Thursday. “TZ07 has just begun its slow rotation, which will allow it to synchronize with the SEN (National Electric System) within the next 72 hours,” Public […]

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Venezuela “returns” to the U.S. and Western sphere of influence

The Trump administration is reversing, through forceful actions and aggressive diplomacy, what President Chávez painstakingly built, and Nicolás Maduro later sought to deepen. José Gregorio Yépez The signing of Venezuela’s oil agreements with the multinational companies that attended the meeting at Miraflores, with the approval of U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, marks one of the […]

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GE Vernova plans to create more than 1,000 local jobs to restore oil industry power grid

The Daily Journal.— General Electric (GE) Vernova plans to create more than 1,000 local jobs as part of a strategic partnership signed Wednesday to restore and stabilize electrical infrastructure supporting Venezuela’s oil industry, a senior executive from the U.S. company announced during a ceremony at Miraflores Palace. GE Vernova Venezuela President Carlos Mousadi and Petróleos […]

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Who is the light for? The biopolitics of darkness and the cost of memory

Héctor Sánchez, Sociologist — The National Government has just approved a series of agreements with companies such as General Electric to “reactivate” the national power system. The amounts remain unclear—as does everything in this country, where figures blur between propaganda and opacity—but people speak of several billion dollars. An astronomical sum that, in any country […]

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U.S. Embassy highlights agreements with American companies to stabilize Venezuela’s power grid

The Daily Journal — The U.S. Embassy in Caracas highlighted on Wednesday a series of agreements that Venezuela signed with U.S.-owned corporations, primarily aimed at stabilizing the national power grid and reviving electricity generation. Through its official X account, the diplomatic mission praised the introduction of American technology and engineering to address deficiencies in the […]

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Venezuelan government signs agreement with General Electric: 1,000 megawatts to join the power grid within two years

The Daily Journal — The strategic agreement signed Monday between the Venezuelan government and General Electric will add 1,000 megawatts to the National Electric System (SEN) within two years and more than 5,000 megawatts over the next four years, President Delcy Rodríguez said. Roger Martella, Chief Corporate Officer of General Electric Vernova, stated that the […]

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