The construction of a coal-based power generation plant, which was scheduled to open early this year, could be delayed further.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
The plant is located on land near La Unión Port and runs the risk of not even being built, depending on the outcome of the tender.
Daniel Choto wrote in an article in Elsalvador.com: "It all depends on the outcome of an international tender that energy distributors have published in order to purchase 320 Mega Watts of power in the form of long-term contracts, said the chairperson of AES Group. It all depends, he said, on the outcome of the tender. If the group’s company that would be bidding wins, construction would have to begin immediately, once the pending municipal permits are obtained, he said."
The company announced that in 2016 the proposed power plant in La Union, El Salvador, would come into operation, but as yet has not indicated the sources of funding or the name of the construction company.
Sources at the Salvadoran National Energy Board told CentralAmericaData.COM that Cutuco Energy Central America has obtained some of the necessary permits for the project, but not all of them, and still does not know where financing will come from. It also noted that the company AES, a global corporation already involved in the country's energy sector, has a similar project planned for installation also in La Union, and that the existence of both projects, involving an investment of about $1000 million each one, does not seem viable.
The cost of the coal plant that the AES Fonseca company will build at the future La Union Port will be some $600 million.
The cost of construction, which is slated to start at the end of January or early February, increased due to high steel prices, according to Neil Watlington, AES Fonseca director.
A new power plant generating 20 megawatts of power was inaugurated on the weekend by President Daniel Ortega.
Blackouts should become rarer with the installation of three made-in-Korea power generation plants in Tipitapa, Masaya and Managua. Once they are all operational, the three will produce another 60 megawatts for the national power grid.
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