Elsalvador.com reports that "DelSur’s CEO, Roberto Gonzalez, confirmed yesterday that three companies are interested in participating in the new tender for the project to generate 350 megawatts (MW) of energy and have already bought the documents. Both of these had participated in the previous bidding process (which was voided) and only one of them is a new company. "

In March the company EMCE El Salvador was the only company to submit a bid in the tender, with a price of $148.58 per megawatt (MW) hour, but the Superintendent of Electricity and Communications (SIGET) had set a price cap of $136,61 MW hours.

Source: elsalvador.com

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