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Chile: 2021 DisCo tender offers preliminary analysis

Energía Estrategica published yesterday 30th of August some raw data about the offers for the August 2021 Distribution Companies tender in Chile.

2,310 GWh/year of energy is tendered, starting supply in 2026, for 15 years. All the technologies are welcome …

Capacity Balance Market: A plunge to zero in 2020?

In our first blog entry of the year, we discussed the 10 trends to watch in the Mexican energy sector throughout 2021. Among these, our team forecasted the Capacity Net Price would plunge to zero during the 2020 Capacity …

Mexico: AMLO Preferential Law Initiative

Over the past two years, the Mexican federal government has been trying to enact their energy policy through a series of controversial publications. Nevertheless, to this date, none of these have caused any real changes on the system.

One of …

Mexico: Top 10 Energy Industry Events in 2020

The year 2020 has been quite a journey! Over the last twelve months, the global economy has experienced a deep recession, impacting every sector along the way. The energy industry was no exception, where an unprecedented collapse in oil …

AMLO Memorandum: Potential Changes to the Economic Dispatch Model

The AMLO administration has tried to introduce several regulatory changes with the objective of strengthening CFE. In the past months, industry participants have issued amparos against some of these regulatory modifications, such as the CENACE and SENER Rulings. While …

Chile: Costos marginales, históricamente bajos

Desde ya hace unas semanas se han comenzado a observar costos marginales en torno a 0 USD/MWh. Esto principalmente dada la alta disponibilidad de recursos renovables, menor demanda y un sistema de transmisión con menores desacoples.

En particular esta semana, …

Chile | Update on Supreme Decree 88

Supreme Decree 88, which enacts a new regulation for Small Scale Generation Units (PMG/PMGD), was submitted again to Contraloría (Comptroller General of Chile), on June 24th, 2020. Among other changes, a new methodology is defined for Stabilized Price computation, …

PMG – PMGDs y Precio Estabilizado: Mitos y realidades

La importante penetración de las energías renovables no convencionales (ERNC) en Chile desde el 2014 fue inicialmente impulsada por centrales de gran tamaño que iban ligadas a contratos de suministro a largo plazo firmados o bien con grandes consumidores …