en.Wedoany.com Reported - Peru's Executive Power (Poder Ejecutivo) has enacted Supreme Decree No. 008-2026-EM, introducing multiple amendments to the Transmission Regulations to optimize national power infrastructure planning, promote timely execution of investments, and enhance the reliability of electricity services. The Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) stated that the decree establishes mechanisms to facilitate more efficient, updated, and enforceable transmission planning, eliminating projects that are no longer viable due to technical, economic, or legal reasons, and whose retention would delay the development of priority projects within the National Interconnected Electric System (SEIN).

Key amendments include: explicitly granting the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) the authority to withdraw binding projects in their entirety or to revoke individual projects that are unfeasible or unimplementable. This measure fills a regulatory gap that previously hindered the cleanup of investment portfolios, preventing projects that cannot be practically executed from lingering in sectoral planning for years and affecting the efficiency of transmission system development.

The decree also introduces a mechanism to update the tariff base for reinforcement projects, maintaining the real value of investments amid international inflation, providing greater predictability for investors, and creating more favorable conditions for the execution of power infrastructure. Additionally, an exceptional regime has been introduced to allow the implementation of reinforcement projects that were approved in previous transmission planning updates but have not yet been realized, thereby helping to restart strategic works aimed at enhancing the capacity, security, and reliability of the transmission system.