Modernisation énergétique et réorganisation régionale des Andes méridionales : les matérialités inattendues du Gazoduc Sud Péruvien

Since 2004, gas operations in Camisea have been restructuring the Peruvian energy system. The pivot of Peruvian energy production has shifted from the high mountains and their water resources to the Andean foothills, and a vast political program of gas network construction and gas massification was...

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Main Authors: Nina Montes de Oca, Sébastien Velut
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Language:English
Published: Institut de Géographie Alpine 2021-12-01
Series:Revue de Géographie Alpine
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rga/9440
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description Since 2004, gas operations in Camisea have been restructuring the Peruvian energy system. The pivot of Peruvian energy production has shifted from the high mountains and their water resources to the Andean foothills, and a vast political program of gas network construction and gas massification was launched in the mid-2000s. This article aims to question the materiality of the energy change implemented in the southern Andean region of the country, which does not involve renewable energies, but which crystallizes around a gas pipeline project and its outputs (thermal power plants, urban gas networks, etc.). From an interpretive framework articulating the development imaginaries development with a critical approach of the materiality of energy modernization, this article builds its analysis on a variety of sources combining field work and the documents published on the project in order to map energy change in this region, and the values associated. While the symbolic object of the Southern Peruvian Gas pipeline is presented in discourses as the triumphant advent of energy modernization in which the state is the central actor, it has given rise to fragmented energy materialities, and a distorted energy change, moving away from its primary social objective.
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Modernisation énergétique et réorganisation régionale des Andes méridionales : les matérialités inattendues du Gazoduc Sud Péruvien
Revue de Géographie Alpine
development
Andes
modernization
energy transition
materiality
gas pipeline
title Modernisation énergétique et réorganisation régionale des Andes méridionales : les matérialités inattendues du Gazoduc Sud Péruvien
title_full Modernisation énergétique et réorganisation régionale des Andes méridionales : les matérialités inattendues du Gazoduc Sud Péruvien
title_fullStr Modernisation énergétique et réorganisation régionale des Andes méridionales : les matérialités inattendues du Gazoduc Sud Péruvien
title_full_unstemmed Modernisation énergétique et réorganisation régionale des Andes méridionales : les matérialités inattendues du Gazoduc Sud Péruvien
title_short Modernisation énergétique et réorganisation régionale des Andes méridionales : les matérialités inattendues du Gazoduc Sud Péruvien
title_sort modernisation energetique et reorganisation regionale des andes meridionales les materialites inattendues du gazoduc sud peruvien
topic development
Andes
modernization
energy transition
materiality
gas pipeline
url https://journals.openedition.org/rga/9440
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