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 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				X
2015	CortoPlazo-1	short-term	210 MW	6.36MW	X
2014	GD-1	distributed	18 MW	18 MW		X
2013	PEG-3	general	250 MW	116 MW		X
2012	PEG-2	general	600 MW	483 MW	X	X	X	X
2011	PEG-1	general	800 MW	196.2 MW				X

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