Caribbean, Central America power watch

The Dominican Republic government has modified the bidding timetable for the process to supply electricity to power distributors EdeNorte, EdeSur and EdeEste under long-term contracts. 

The registration deadline was extended to May 20 from April 20, according to an update from the energy and mines ministry. 

The call was issued in March and is reserved for 700-800MW from new combined cycle natural gas fired plants. 

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El Salvador’s power and telecommunications regulator SIGET released the quarterly update of the price of electric energy to be transferred to tariffs, which will be in force as of April 15, where the MWh will have a price of US$119.54 and the average price to the final consumer will be US$0.1575/kWh.

In the same quarter of last year, the price was US$119.42/MWh, which shows price stability, according to the watchdog.

SIGET also attributed pricing to the start of operations in 1Q21 of the 9.9MW Ecosolar photovoltaic park and the 54MW Ventus wind farm, the latter of which is the first such plant of its type in the country.

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EOR, the operator of Central America’s Siepac power grid, published a regulatory proposal to modify the valuation of transmission rights.

The proposed modification follows the identification of problems during auctions for transmission rights covering January-December 2021 and January 2021.