With no details of the participating companies, it was reported that the 18 technical and economic proposals were presented on December 19 in the morning to the DELSUR authorities. The next step is to evaluate that the offers comply with the aspects requested for them to be opened in March next year.

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Roberto Gonzalez, general manager of the electricity distributor DELSUR, explained to Elmundo.sv that ".... At the opening ceremony scheduled for March 11th, 2019, the tenders will be opened, and the winning projects will be announced. Two months later, they will sign the contracts for the clean energy generation."

Gonzalez added that "... In May 2019, contracts will be signed to generate 28 megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaic energy and biogas, which together will represent a $45 million investment for the next two years."

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The total power to tender is 28 Megawatts, of which 20 Megawatts are solar photovoltaic and 8 Megawatts Biogas, the winners will be hired for a 15-year period and is expected to start operations from 2020 and 2021 respectively.

Source: elmundo.sv

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