Initially created to enhance the knowledge of the state electric company’s personnel in transmission tasks, with the ambition to become a national benchmark for specialization in this field in the future.
Issue 124 | 2023
UNICOM ENDE
With the aim of training Bolivian professionals in electric transmission tasks, the National Electricity Company (ENDE Corporation), through its electricity transmission company, ENDE Transmisión, has established the country’s first School of Maintenance for High and Extra High Voltage Lines.
This training unit is initially created to reinforce the knowledge of the state electric company’s personnel, with the ambition to become a national benchmark for specialization in this field in the future. The objective of the School, located in Cochabamba, is to establish a continuous training space for workers, promoting continuous improvement based on the updating and enhancement of skills and competencies through training, education, and training processes.
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Among the tasks associated with this field, activities such as work at heights on high and extra high voltage towers, replacement of conductors, insulators, live-line maintenance, among others, stand out.
The need to create the Training School arises from the certification of personnel as “Linemen,” as there is no institution in Bolivia dedicated to training and certifying specialized personnel in the maintenance of transmission lines. Part of ENDE’s personnel knowledge is based on practical experience in the field, acquired empirically, highlighting the necessity of having a specialized continuous training center in this field.
“For the execution of practices, five spans with structures at 230 and 500 kilovolts (kV) have been implemented, with conductors in quadruple and double bundles, in six full-size structures arranged in double tern and single tern horizontal disposition, in the Santiváñez Substation in the department of Cochabamba.
ENDE Corporation, through its company ENDE Transmisión, operates more than 90% of the transmission lines of the National Interconnected System (SIN), comprising over 7,000 kilometers of lines at 69, 115, 230, and 500 kV, located throughout the country.
The National Electricity Company ensures the transportation of energy at high and extra high voltage within the national territory, with 100% Bolivian staff, increasingly specializing their knowledge to strengthen the electrical system.
“ENDE Corporation, through its company ENDE Transmisión, operates more than 90% of the transmission lines of the National Interconnected System (SIN)…”
