El Salvador renewable energy auction 2014

On 4^th of November Superintendencia General de Electricidad y Telecomunicaciones (SIGET) and Consejo Nacional de Energía (CNE) issued a call of tender for 15 MW of renewable energy projects. The winners of the tender were announced on 11 February 2014.

Summary of the auction results:

Technology	Number of projects awarded	Cumulative capacity awarded (MW)	Average price in USD/MWh
Solar PV	31	12.36	181
Small hydro	2	0.5	161.75
Biogas	2	0.45	228
Total	35	13.31	-

Remaining capacity (1.69 MW) will be allocated to the residential renewable systems of up to 5 kW size. 

 

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