The Mexican Secretariat of Energy (Sener) has extended to Oct. 30 the deadline to register storage projects under the Call for Strategic Electricity Generation and Storage Projects associated with CFE.
The amendment, published Wednesday in Mexico’s Official Gazette, establishes separate schedules for generation and storage. Generation projects could submit expressions of interest and interconnection study requests from June 2 through Sept. 2, while electricity energy storage systems can register until Oct. 30.
The extension therefore does not reopen the registration period for renewable generation projects, which closed Sept. 2.
As reported in May, Sener launched the call to identify strategic renewable generation and storage projects that could be developed in partnership with CFE. The scheme provides for different participation models between the state-owned utility and private parties.
The call states that the capacity to be incorporated will be determined according to the needs of Mexico’s National Electricity System. For storage, the required capacity will be defined by Regional Control Management, while generation requirements will be established by interconnected system.
The National Center for Energy Control (Cenace) is not to consider projects located in regions where there is no required capacity or where the requirement has already been met.
Projects advancing through the process will have to pass connection or interconnection studies and the corresponding technical assessment. Criteria include the commercial operation date, location, congestion relief, contribution to capacity, regional reliability, operational flexibility, and, for storage systems, their technology and projected performance.
The original call was published May 15 and has already undergone subsequent amendments. The latest extension gives storage projects a registration period almost two months longer than that available to generation projects.
From pv magazine Mexico
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