POWER V

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This project will finance the foreign exchange cost of a 400 MW hydroelectric power plant (El Toro) and related works, transmission and distribution facilities, and of consultants' services. The proposed project constitutes part of ENDESA's overall expansion program for the period 1966-72 designed to provide the additional generating, transmission and distribution capacity required to meet expected system load increases. In addition to the construction of the El Toro hydroelectric scheme, and modifications at the existing Abanico hydroelectric plant, other elements include: the addition of equipment associated with the fifth 70 MW generating unit in the Rapel hydroelectric plant; construction of a trunk double circuit 200 KV transmission system to interconnect Santiago with the El Toro plant and the Bocamina thermal plant near Concepcion; other transmission and distribution system expansion, including substations; procurement of electrical and other equipment and supplies; and provision of consulting services for various aspects of the project and studies related to ENDESA's future expansion of the power system.