Roundup: JPS hydro, CDM request, procurement update

Jamaican power utility JPS announced procurement of material for a 6.3MW project that will use water from the Maggotty river will begin by January. "JPS is presently at an advanced stage of negotiations with potential contractors, to undertake the engineering, procurement of material and equipment, construction and commissioning of the new plant," the company said in a statement. Site work is due to start in January 2013 and commissioning is scheduled for October that year. An existing Maggotty plant boasts 6MW. *** Certification firm Icontec filed a CDM registration request with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change for Honduran company Compañía Hondureña de Generación de Energía Renovable's 37.9MW La Vegona hydro project. The run-of-the-river plant would offset 109,168t/y of CO2 emissions. La Vegona will span departments Yoro and Cortes on the Humuya or Comayagua river, some 8km downstream from the 300MW Francisco Morazan (El Cajón) hydro plant. Operations are due to begin in 2013. *** And Semasa, the water and sanitation firm of Brazil's Santo André municipality in São Paulo state, extended to November 10 from October 27 the deadline to submit proposals to carry out feasibility studies for a landfill waste-to-energy project. The US Trade and Development Agency approved a grant to finance the work.