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Renewable Energy Auctions

The General Law of  Electricity  stated that utilities must procure their electricity supply contracts through auctions. Consequently, several auctions have been conducted in recent years. Generally, all technologies are allowed to participate in auctions . However, in certain…

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Country / jurisdiction: Guatemala · Year: 2011 · Status: In force · Level: National · Type: Voluntary

The General Law of  Electricity  stated that utilities must procure their electricity supply contracts through auctions. Consequently, several auctions have been conducted in recent years.

Generally, all technologies are allowed to participate in auctions . However, in certain cases minimum quota of certain renewable energy technologies were required. In PEG-2, for instance, a minimum quota of 360 MW of Renewable Energy Power Plants with the following minimum requirements:

Hydropower 200 MW

Biomass/Biomass mixed: 70 MW

Other Renewables: 30 MW

Moreover, in 2014, there was a specific auction (GD-1) for distributed generators (renewable or otherwise).

Both short and long term auctions were carried out:

Long term auctions offered 15-year PPAs for capacity or energy (e.g. PEG-1; PEG-2; PEG-3).

Short term auctions often resulted in between 1 to 5 year contracts (e.g. CortoPlazo-1 and CortoPlazo-2).

Accord 68 of 2007 defined distributed renewable generators as those under 5 MW. It offered 10-year PPAs.

The following table summarises the Auctions in Guatemala:

YEAR

AUCTION

TYPE

Total Offered

RE Awarded

BIOMASS

SOLAR

WIND

HYDRO

2015

CortoPlazo-2

short-term

89 MW

35 MW

2015

CortoPlazo-1

short-term

210 MW

6.36MW

2014

GD-1

distributed

18 MW

18 MW

2013

PEG-3

general

250 MW

116 MW

2012

PEG-2

general

600 MW

483 MW

2011

PEG-1

general

800 MW

196.2 MW

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