Uruguay

Getting Electricity in

Uruguay

Below is a detailed summary of the procedures, time and cost required for a business to obtain an electricity connection for a newly constructed building in Uruguay.

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  • Name of Utility: Administración Nacional de Usinas y Transmisiones Eléctricas (UTE)
  • City: Montevideo

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No. Procedure Time to Complete Associated Costs
1 The client's authorized electrician submits in person the connection application to the office of Administración Nacional de Usinas y Transmisión Eléctrica (UTE) and waits for quote

The application to the distribution company must be submitted by an authorized electrician. The client have to hired one . The distributor company, under the oversight of the regulatory agency, registers the electricians.
UTE requires that the electrician submit to submit certain documents at the time of the submission of the connection application (indicating the power needed and the location of the external works). The applicant then awaits the preparation of the quote.
Sometimes the utility needs to do an inspection to prepare a feasibility study, depending on the required load. In our case it is necessary to do an inspection in order to prepare the quote.

Agency: Administración Nacional de Usinas y Transmisión Eléctrica (UTE) 		15 calendar days no charge
* 2 UTE inspects the client's site to gather information in order to do the quote

UTE inspects the site of the client in order to do the quote of the required connection works
Agency: Administración Nacional de Usinas y Transmisión Eléctrica (UTE) 		1 calendar day no charge
3 The client's electrician signs an assumption of responsibility at an office of Administración Nacional de Usinas y Transmisión Eléctrica (UTE)

Administración Nacional de Usinas y Transmisión Eléctrica (UTE) does not supervise the internal wiring, the electrician who did the internal wiring (usually an electrician of medium technical training) must submit an document certifying that the internal wiring is done in accordance to the reglementation. It has to be done by a electrician chosen by the client and registered at UTE.
Agency: Administración Nacional de Usinas y Transmisión Eléctrica (UTE) 		1 calendar day no charge
4 The client pays the quote, signs the contract and waits for UTE to carry on the external connection works.

The payment of the quote is required prior to the beginning of the external works carried on by UTE. The external connection works requires the laying of a few meters of low voltage underground cable (400 V). The electrician of the customer only has to prepare the box for the meter.
Agency: Administración Nacional de Usinas y Transmisión Eléctrica (UTE) 		30 calendar days UYU 37,250.0
5 The client signs the supply contract and Administración Nacional de Usinas y Transmisión Eléctrica (UTE) installs the meter and the electricity starts flowing.

The client or his legal representative signs the supply contract in one of the commercial offices of Administración Nacional de Usinas y Transmisión Eléctrica (UTE). This procedure can not be done by the electrician.
The meter is then installed by another department of UTE that the one in charge of the external works. When the team in charge of laying the underground cables finished the work, they issue a work order to the Technical Department . The team of the Technical Department have 2 days to install the meter.
Agency: Administración Nacional de Usinas y Transmisión Eléctrica (UTE) 		2 calendar days no charge
* Takes place simultaneously with another procedure.
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