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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
Official source: http://www.cnee.gob.gt/wp/?page_id=235
Source
https://www.iea.org/policies/6271Canonical document at the regulator. Always cite this URL — not the Vantage detail page — in compliance evidence.