The international tender for lighting and video surveillance of 143 kilometers of road sections in El Salvador began, a contract that will be executed through a Public-Private Partnership.
Companies interested in applying for the project will have four months to submit their technical and financial proposal. After an evaluation process, the contract of the winning company must be approved by the Legislative Assembly.
Suministros Eléctricos, Merconed, Ferconed are three of the thirteen companies in Honduras that presented their proposals in the tender for 100 thousand LED lamps convened by the National Electric Energy Company.
In the first half of 2018, Central American countries imported $57 million in electric incandescent lamps and tubes, and 52% was purchased by companies in Guatemala and Costa Rica.
Figures from the Trade Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData: [GRAFICA caption="Click to interact with graphic"]
In El Salvador, consultancy began to structure the project to install a lighting and video surveillance system on 140 kilometers of roads in four regions.
From the Fomilenio II statement:
FOMILENIO II and Deloitte Consulting S.L.U. signed the order to start the consultancy to structure the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) lighting and video surveillance project. This PPP consists of financing, installing, operating and maintaining lighting, poles, underground cabling, video surveillance cameras and monitoring rooms for selected road sections that conform an approximate length of 140 kilometers.
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Services in Honduras is putting out to tenderlighting for a stadium and nine soccer fields, all located in the department of Santa Bárbara.
Honduras Government Purchase LP-058-DGOP-OAU-2018:
The company Sylvania has inaugurated a lighting product development laboratory in Costa Rica, from where it will provide support to the company's research and development teams.
The lighting company invested $1 million in its new laboratory that has a space of 350 m2for the development of high specification products for different industries, and also has more than 20 state-of-the-art pieces of equipment, which streamline the quality control processes for the products designed in the country, as well as the verification of imported products.
The company Sylvania has announced that it will be expanding its capacity to manufacture LED products in Costa Rica with the construction of a new 2 thousand square meter production plant.
Representatives from the company explained to Elfinancierocr.com that "...At the moment, it is in the preliminary draft phase (three to four months for the development of plans and architectural plans), construction could begin at the end of May and is expected to be completed in six months time."
The Ministry of Energy and Mines in Nicaragua is putting out to tender the supply and installation of efficient climate control equipment and LED street lighting.
A bill is being prepared in El Salvador to reduce energy consumption in public entities, through replacement of equipment and new infrastructure.
At the beginning of next year, the Salvadoran Energy Council will be presenting a bill to the National Assembly, which will represent an investment of $70 million.
Elmundo.sv reports that "...In 2015, a feasibility study was carried out with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to create this trust, which is expected to reduce energy consumption in public institutions through means of replacing equipment and infrastructure with things that are more environmentally friendly and which have less power consumption."
The 2.4% year-on-year increase in the construction materials price index as of September 2017 was explained by the prices of electricity and lighting and cement and derivatives, which grew by 10% and 4.4%, respectively.
Of the five chapters that make up the aggregate of the Construction Materials Price Index (IPMC), the highest growth was recorded by electricity and lighting (10.5%), followed by cement and derivatives (4.4%), and metals and derivatives (2.5%). On the other hand, wood and roofing (-1.9%) and sanitation ware and floors (-1.5%) showed decreases.
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