The plant that AES El Salvador inaugurated in La Union, required an investment of $160 million, and has 44 thousand polycrystalline-type photovoltaic modules, in an area of 149 thousand square meters.
Pasaquina is the first of ten solar power generation plants that AES El Salvador and Corporación Multi Inversiones plan to build in the three phases of the project. It is expected that the plants will start operations gradually over the next two years.
MIREC WEEK is an international congress on Renewable Energies, one of the most important in the sector, and will be held from May 21 to 24, 2018 in the World Trade Center, Mexico City.
MIREC WEEK is an International Congress on Renewable Energies, one of the most important in the sector, which brings together numerous companies, and will take place from May 21 to 24, 2018 at the facilities of the World Trade Center, Mexico City.
Instituto Nacional de Electrificación de Guatemala is putting out to tenderconstruction of works and a supply of specialized equipment for different hydroelectric plants.
The Congress of Costa Rica has finally approved a $500 million loan for the state electricity company to carry out electric generation and transmission works, including three geothermal plants.
Of the total amount of the loan with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved by the Legislative Assembly, close to $200 million will be used to finance the Pailas II, 50 MW, and Borinquen I, 55 MW geothermal projects, both in Liberia, Guanacaste.
After requesting an extension to postpone the date of entry into operations, authorities at AES Panama confirmed that the plant will begin operations on September 1.
Construction of the plant started in May 2016 and will have three generators, three gas turbines and one steam turbine, reaching a total installed capacity of 381 MW.
Work has started on the first phase of the Toabré wind power generation project in Panama, with an investment of over $150 million.
From a statement issued by Audax Renovables:
Badalona, May 9, 2018.- Audax Renewables, subsidiary of renewable energy generation in the Audax group, which is participating together with local partners in the project of the Toabré wind farm in Panama, wishes to state that construction work has been started for the first phase of 66 MW of installed power of the wind farm with a total investment of more than 150 million dollars.
The government reported that the Inter-American Development Bank has approved a $20 million loan to finance renewable energy projects managed by small and medium enterprises.
Vice President Rosario Murillo told government media that "... the IDB gave no objection to Banco de la Producción (Banpro) who will give loans to small and medium-sized renewable energy companies," this is reported by Iván Acosta, Minister of Finance, who in turn received the note from Francisco Mayorga who represents us at the IDB."
The Road Safety Council of Costa Rica is putting out to tender the supply and installation of solar panels for 110 semaphore systems in the centralized system.
As of February 2018, Costa Rica had an installed solar capacity of 27 MW, which is equivalent to only 0.76% of the equipment interconnected in the National Electric System.
According to a study carried out by the Costa Rican Solar Energy Association (Acesolar), whose final results will be published next month, Costa Rica is lagging behind in the use of solar energy, even compared to other Central American countries.
From June 5 to 9, companies from the energy industry will be gathering together in San Pedro Sula to take part in business conferences and discuss issues that are relevant to the sector.
The initiative is being run by state entities and the private sector, and will take place between June 5 and 9 at the Convention Center of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Cortés (CCIC) in San Pedro Sula.
The sugar mill union could be investing $160 million in energy generation projects that use ethanol and in the construction of a biomass-based power plant.
Without giving further details, members of the sugar trade union reported that they are planning to build a biomasspower generation plant in the short term, which could be the most modern one in Central America.
While one candidate is willing to review the limits on private electricity cogeneration, and raise them from 15% to 30%, the other rejects the possibility of extracting natural gas due to its environmental implications.
In a meeting with companies in the Chamber of Industries of Costa Rica (ICRC), the two candidates who will go head to head in a second round of voting on April 1, shared their proposals to deal with issues of great importance to the industrial sector, such as electricity rates and the opening up of the electricity market, as well as the management of procedures in State institutions.
In the Dominican Republic, the construction of a solar farm has began, which in its first stage will provide 25 MW, and once it is operational, a further 25 MW.
Through its subsidiary Emerald Solar Energy, the companies Potentia Renewables and Cisneros started the construction of the photovoltaic generation plant in Vicente Noble, Barahona.
In the last 20 years sugar mills in Guatemala increased their energy generation from 160 MW to 700 MW, and currently their contribution is equivalent to 27% of the energy matrix.
The union for the sector estimates that over the last decades mills have invested around $820 million in the generation of electric power.
With these investments yields have improved, as according to figures from the Association of Independent Cogenerators of Guatemala (ACI) for " ... every ton of ground cane, the mills used to be able to generate 44 kilowatt hours (kWh), but with the research development they generate 91 kWh."
In 2017, electric energyexports totaled $103 million, 104% more than was sold in 2017, reversing the falls registered in the two previous years.
According to figures from the Banco de Guatemala, over the past year the country sold abroad a monthly average $8.5 million worth of electricity, with the Central American region being the main destination market.
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