2.1.1.1. Electricity Consumption Baseline

The initial list on electricity consumption from the ARCONEL contained clients/consumers reporting electricity consumption above 20,000 kWh/month. This electricity consumption baseline was established after analyzing the energy demand of a small food processing company with installed capacity of approximately 30 kWel, working 24 h/day the year-round (i.e., with electricity consumption of ~20,000 kWh/month). The company is located in the city of Cuenca, and herein it is referred to as Company A. The number of companies/consumers in the initial list was ~41,800. Next, the resulting list was analyzed and filtered again to remove companies and/or institutions (both public and private) in which, although their electricity consumption was >20,000 kWh/month, no fuels are required for their operation, except diesel for transportation and LPG (Liquid Petroleum Gas) for cooking at a small scale. This is the case of:


It was also observed that the possibilities of cogeneration in a few companies that process polymers/plastics (e.g., High Density Polyethylene-HDPE, Polypropylene-PP, Polyvinyl Chloride-PVC) for producing plastic toys, plastic bags and/or plastic furniture for both domestic and industrial use (with electricity consumption > 20,000 kWh/month) should be verified in situ. Thus, these companies were kept in the list. The amount of companies after this filtering process was approximately 2000.
