Marketing
- Project is well positioned to secure multilateral development grants and/or financing
- Project is an attractive candidate to market green attributes internationally, potentially through Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). In 2005, UNFCCC set carbon baseline for the Nicaragua power system at 0.754tCO2/MWh. At projected production levels, this represents approximately $8-10/MWh of value at current credit pricing that could be captured by the project beyond electricity pricing.
- Nicaragua needs more generating capacity and energy, given attractive project pricing, a domestic PPA should be possible once issues related to transmission interconnection and system integration are clarified
- The larger Central American electrical market is currently being integrated and is moving toward joint dispatch, opening up additional electricity sales options