ATLANTIC DIST/VILLAG

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The proposed project would support Government efforts to integrate the country's poorest and most backward region, the North Atlantic, into the modern national life. The project comprises the first stage (1981-85) of Corporacion Electrica de la Costa Atlantica's (CORELCA) 15-year Rural Electrification Program to expand and improve electricity supply in the main villages throughout the Region. The project consists of: (a) provision of electricity supply to about 120 rural villages; (b) rehabilitation of old, deteriorated distribution networks in six villages; (c) interconnection with the CORELCA system of twenty-five villages now dependent upon unreliable and costly local diesel generation; (d) a training program to strengthen the technical skills of CORELCA and the Electrificadoras' staff; and (e) a study to help minimize heavy power losses in the Electrificadoras' distribution systems.