Caribbean, South America power roundup

The Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) signed its first solar photovoltaic (PV) project in The Bahamas with the Caribbean Bottling Company (CBC).

The US$1mn loan will finance the installation of a rooftop solar PV system at CBC's main bottling plant in Nassau, IIC said in a statement.

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Dominican Republic power holding company CDEEE opened economic offers to supply distributors with 900MW for up to five years.

AES Andrés offered 275MW from gas-fired generation; fuel oil bids came from Palamara (96MW), La Vega (60MW), Quisqueya (210MW), Pimentel 1, 2 and 3 (62.8MW), CEPP 1 and 2 (59.3MW), Monte Río (45MW), Los Orígenes (50MW), San Felipe (100MW) and Estrella de Mar (85MW); and coal offers from Barahona Carbón (40MW) and Itabo 1 and 2 (110MW each), CDEEE said in a statement.

Authorities revealed that the maximum and minimum price caps were US$0.082/kWh and US$0.075/kWh. Contracts will be awarded next week.

Meanwhile, the country's national energy commission CNE and civil aviation authority IDAC launched operations of a 1MW PV park (pictured) at the Norge Botello aeronautical complex in Punta Caucedo near the Américas international airport.

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Applus, Astrom, Deea-Intec, Diseprosa, Nipsa, Prius, Tractebel (Leme) and Typsa attended an information meeting as part of Bolivian state generator Guaracachi's second call to supervise construction and startup of solar power plants Uyuni (60MW) and Yunchará (5MW).