Guatemala: Three Companies Bid for Electric Grid

Three companies submitted bids for extending the electric power grid in 817 kilometers.

Monday, November 30, 2009

They are "Interconexión Eléctrica, S.A." (ISA), from Colombia, the Consortium "EEB/EDM Proyecto Guatemala", and ETCEE, a subsidiary of INDE, Guatemala's National Electrification Institute.

Technical and economic bids for the Electric Transmission Expansion Plan (known as PET in Spanish) "... will be opened on December 11th, after which there will be an auction to choose the best proposal", reports Prensalibre.com.

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