The trend in Latin America has been towards large power generation projects including giant hyropower projects. Countries are working to improve cross-border energy transfers.
What if that's all wrong and the future of energy is a much smaller scale of power generation? It's possible that instead of generating power for regions and sharing power across borders, countries should be focused on developing the technology and infrastructure to manage power neighborhood by neighborhood. As new technology is more widely available, the smaller power generation projects should prove possible and economically viable.
At the same time, Latin America as a region may be economically locking itself into these larger infrastructure projects now in a way that will cause them to miss out on potential new technology a decade down the road.
Then again, is there another way? It would be difficult and probably even irresponsible for a country to say they will skip over large scale projects now in the hopes future technology will work out.
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