Anonymous - 2-9-2003 at 08:16 PM
Mexico City, Feb 05, 2003 (EFE via COMTEX) -- The Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), Mexico's state-owned power distribution monopoly, has begun
accepting bids from companies to build a 198-242 megawatt combined-cycle plant and solar-power facility in Mexicali, Baja California.
CFE officials told EFE Tuesday that the power agency would continue to accept bids until the end of March.
Under Mexico's electricity laws, private-sector power producers are only allowed to sell their output to the CFE.
The company that submits the winning bid will get a 25-year franchise to manage the plant and a $49.35 million subsidy from the Global Environment
Facility, a unit of the World Bank, to develop a 25-megawatt solar plant.
Construction is scheduled to begin in September and the plant should begin operations in March 2006.
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