Empresa Nacional de Transmisión Eléctrica (ENATREL) in Nicaragua is putting out to tender the supply of goods and related services for the construction of rural electricity networks.
INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC TENDER No. ICB-003-2013-PNESER
No. SEPA: PNESER-II-29-LPI-B
"SUPPLY OF GOODS AND SERVICES FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF RURAL ELECTRICITY NETWORKS"
The flagship project of Nicaragua's energy system is still bogged down by opposition from nearby communities and corporate indecision.
The Tumarín hydroelectric project costing in excess of $1.1 billion is two years late and has some unresolved problems, despite promising to decrease electricity rates in the future .
This project, according to official projections, should be completed and operational in 2017, but it is now two years behind, because the people of Apawás are demanding payment of $818 for each block of land that the company needs to complete the work, plus 60% extra.
The National Assembly has approved a $ 6.5 billion project that includes a refinery and an interoceanic pipeline.
Investors are assumed to be the government of Venezuela "and other partners" in a project that has no definite dates for implementation and which aims to supply 40% of the consumption of refined fuels from the Central region.
According to an article in Prensa.com.ni, "the complex, called ‘The supreme dream of Bolívar’ - will be run by the private enterprise Albanisa, in which Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) has a 51% shareholding and state Petróleos de Nicaragua (Petronic) has 49%, indicates the Law. The work will be built in the coastal area of Miramar in the municipality of Nagarote, in the department of León, 90 km northwest of the capital, according to the recently approved bill. "
The Tumarín hydroelectric project by the Brazilian company Centrales Hidroeléctricas de Nicaragua, has not recorded any material progress, despite repeated announcements of the start of construction.
An article published in Elnuevoherald.com reiterates statements by the President Centrales Hidroeléctricas de Nicaragua, Marcelo Conde, that financing of $1.110 billion, the cost of the works, is being secured with the Central American Bank for Economic Integration and the Banco Nacional de Desarrollo Económico Social de Brasil, and that construction will begin in the next few months.
CAMC Engineering, from Mainland China, is the counterpart of a $233 million contract to build the basic storage infrastructure and the pipeline network.
The Chinese group CAMC Engineering Co., Ltd. (CAMCE) signed a memorandum of understanding for a joint venture with Alba de Nicaragua SA (Albanisa) – a Venezuelan oil importing company, to build the first phase of a refinery in Nicaragua, which will be called " El Supremo Sueño de Bolívar” (The Supreme Dream of Bolivar).
Work has begun on a new park in the Isthmus of Rivas, a $160 million project which will generate 44 MW.
The project belongs to the company Eolo of Nicaragua, who have invested $160,536,670 according to records at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARENA).
The construction is being managed by the Spanish company Gamesa. Allan Moreno, construction manager for the company, said that they plan to perform the first tests of the wind farm in November and then deliver the finished works to Eolo de Nicaragua, reported Elnuevodiario.com.ni.
An announcement has been made in Nicaragua that construction will be started in February 2013 on the hydroelectric plant which will generate 250 MW at a cost of $1.1 billion.
Marcelo Conde, president of the company Centrales Hidroeléctricas de Nicaragua (CHN), dominated by Brazilian capital, said his company will start building the Tumarín hydroelectric station in February 2013, the start of the $1.1 billion investment project.
At the First Central American Forum on Energy and Infrastructure Project Finance, participants highlighted the number of ventures taking place in Central America in these sectors.
The Panama Canal expansion is just one example that stands out of the many investment projects in energy and infrastructure, both public and private, going on in Central America, in contrast to the sluggishness in Europe, according to participants in the industry forum held in Panama.
The Investment Promotion Agency of Nicaragua has announced further investments by Hemco for $50 million in two hydroelectric power stations that will generate a total of 20MW.
A statement by PRONicaragua reads:
HEMCO, a company engaged in mineral exploration and hydroelectric power, recently announced plans to invest a total of $50.5 million in the installation of two renewable energy projects in Nicaragua, which have the capacity to generate 20MW.
The resources will be allocated to transport, energy and climate change, agricultural productivity, health and social protection.
The announcement was made by the representative of the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) in Nicaragua, Mirna Marquez Liévano.
Of the total, $31.4 million will be used for social investment projects, such as water and sanitation programs in secondary cities in Nicaragua and for the development of a plan to reduce the amount of non billed water in Masaya.
The German government will allocate about $27 million for regional health, violence prevention, energy and sustainable development projects.
The German ambassador in El Salvador, Christian Stocks, and the Secretary General of SICA, Juan Daniel German, formalized the implementation of four projects.
The first project, "Land Use Planning and Sustainable Development (OTDES)" corresponds to a request by the Heads of State and Government of SICA countries, expressed in the Declaration of Comalapa, last October, and aims to strengthen the capacity and performance of institutions responsible for land use planning in the region, with the aim of promoting regional and territorial development processes, allowing both the promotion of economic and social development such as an improvement in risk management and natural disasters.
The president of the company Alba de Nicaragua S.A., has announced that by the end of the year contracts will be signed for the construction of the first phase of the project.
The project in Nicaragua, which has been delayed for years, will provide capacity to process about 150,000 barrels a day, said Rafael Ramírez, Minister of Energy and Petroleum of Venezuela during the Petrocaribe VII Ministerial Council held in Managua, Nicaragua.
The dam, which will generate 253 megawatts of power, requires an investment of $1100 million over four years.
Constructing two camps to house staff and space for the machinery to be used in the project will form the basis of the preparation phase prior to the start of construction of the hydroelectric dam.
The energy generation project, which will be developed by the Hydroelectric Company of Nicaragua (CHN), created by the Brazilian state company Eletrobras and the conglomerate Galvo Queiroz, will be erected in the town of La Cruz de Rio Grande in the South Atlantic Autonomous Region .
The work is six months behind schedule, because funds have not been provided by investors in the project, including Brazil's state run BNDES.
Eliseo Núñez Hernández, president of the Infrastructure Committee, acknowledged the delay in the works in Nicaragua and said they do not know the reason why funding for the project has been detained.
A meeting with the project financer, the National Bank of Economic and Social Development (BNDES) of Brazil has been planned for the end of June .
The National Electricity Transmission Company is putting out to tender the construction of 12 km of 138 KV transmission lines.
This international public tender consists of a single lot and includes:
Design and construction of approximately 12 kms of Transmission Line
138 KV double circuit between the Ticuantepe substation and the Centroamerica roundabout, located 5.5km from the Carretera a Masaya, which is where it will be connected to the El Periodista - Altamira de Anillo de Managua at 138 KVS.