Peru, Lima
The Peruvian Chamber of Natural Gas Vehicles (CPGNV) anticipates that by late 2008 there will be 60,000 vehicles using natural gas in Lima and Callao, representing a major breakthrough in changing the country’s energy mix. In addition, the Chamber projects that 60 natural gas service stations (gasocentros) will be added within that time frame. These projections assume positive responses to the elimination of the Selective Consumption Tax (ISC) for the purchase of new cars and other government measures, according to CPGNV general manager, Jorge Juarez.
RPP News reports that President Alan
García has pleaded to all owners of vehicles in the country and
industrialists to join the conversion of vehicles and machines to
natural gas, now that "we are on the brink of a historic change of the
country’s energy matrix."
It also indicated that the eventual approval of the project to build a
pipeline to southern Peru will help other regions access the benefits
of natural gas for vehicles. Growth has climbed from 5000 vehicles in the
first year, to 19000 in the second year, and nearly 24000 vehicles last
year, advised Juarez. "But at this moment the first quarter of 2008 the
number of vehicles converted has gone to 32000 units and we must also
mention that there are already 31 gasocentros supplying these cars
without any difficulty," he said.
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