In El Salvador, the competition rules are being prepared to design and build a plant that will generate energy from solid waste and wastewater, which will be located on the Acelhuate River.
The project of the new plant, which will have an installed capacity of 5.2 MW and whose investment will amount to $32 million, was announced by the presidency of the Executive Hydroelectric Commission of the Lempa River (CEL).
The state-owned company LaGeo plans to invest in its geothermal fields in Chinameca and San Vicente to increase its generation capacity to an additional 80 megawatts.
In order to finance the works, the public company LaGeo, a subsidiary of the Lempa River Hydroelectric Executive Commission (CEL Group), is negotiating a $232 million loan with the World Bank.
Through the company LaGeo the government has announced that $250 million is needed to start exploration in new areas and to change a geothermal turbine plant in Berlin.
Authorities at the HEPP Executive Commission of the Lempa River (CEL Group) explained that they have made closer ties with institutions such as the World Bank and the CABEI in order to negotiate possible financing.
The German bank KfW has resumed the disbursement of funds suspended in April, which will allow for the project to expand the plant to continue.
Authorities at the Executive Commission of the Lempa River (CEL) explained to Elmundo.sv that"... at the moment we are in the process of testing an additional 80 megawatts, and we are still renovating some things that need to be adapted in order to start with the extended generation. "
In El Salvador the Executive Hydroelectric Commission of the Lempa River is putting out to tender underground excavation works for the El Chaparral hydroelectric project.
The Autonomous Executive Commission of the Lempa River in El Salvador has hired the Costa Rican state run company to manage electrical extension works on the hydroelectric station called 5 de Noviembre.
The contract is for $3.4 million and consists of the project management, for 14 months, of the expansion of the 5 de Noviembre hydroelectric station.
The Russian company Tyazhmash will design and build a 66 MW turbine and the Salvadoran company Dycsa will build the powerhouse and finish the remaining work on the El Chaparral hydroelectric dam.
The Executive Hydroelectric Commission of the Lempa River (CEL) signed contracts with the two companies to resume work on the El Chaparral hydroelectric project, which has been on hold since 2013. Discussions with the Russian company Astaldi have already begun to define the design, and according to authorities from the CEL, in this way costs will be saved.
The Executive Hydroelectric Commission of the Lempa River is putting out to tender strengthening of a slope and other construction works on the hydropower stations 15 de Septiembre and Cerrón Grande.
The Executive Hydroelectric Commission of the Lempa River is putting out to tender open pit excavations stage II at the El Chaparral hydroelectric project.
A tender is being launched in El Salvador for the construction of river diversion ducts, supply of hydromechanical equipment, and a transmission line in the El Chaparral hydroelectric project.
The Executive Hydroelectric Commission of the Lempa River is putting out to tender the supply of hydraulic concrete for the construction of a powerhouse and an open air excavation site in the El Chaparral hydroelectric project.
It has been announced that the tender documents to choose a company to resume work on the dam El Chaparral, estimated at $291 million, are ready.
Authorities at the Executive Hydroelectric Commission of the Lempa River (CEL) explained that they intend to draw up several contracts to segment work on the project and reduce the total cost. The actual cost of the work remaining to be done is $291 million, "... because CEL is going to move the dike of the dam to prevent slippage on the right side of one of the mountains in the area of the work . "
Despite the agreement signed last December, authorities from the CEL say it reserves the right to activate in civil courts processes to collect compensation for alleged damages.
After ten years of international litigation by the Italian company ENEL for control of the geothermal station Enel Green Power El Salvador, where the Salvadoran State had everything to lose, in December 2014 an agreement was signed at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) which stated in Article 3 that: "The parties (the Salvadoran State and Enel) have agreed as a condition non precedent of the effects of the Framework Agreement, the final and irrevocable extinction of the civil action of the crime involving Enel Green Power (EGP) and Enel Green Power in El Salvador criminal proceedings number 171-A-2-13 in the Seventh Court of Peace and 133-2013-12 in the Seventh Court of Instruction, both of San Salvador, that will be extended to all natural persons who are accused of crimes in the same instance ... ".
The aim is to have ready by the end of the year designs and technical specifications for the power plant, in order to tender construction of the plant which will use the CHI-3 geothermal well.
At the official opening of the CHI-3 well in the town of Chinameca, it was highlighted that there is "...
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