22-06-05 Uruguay's state power company UTE has delayed receiving bids for a turnkey contract to build two gas-fired plants with combined installed capacity up to 250 MW to July 11.
The original deadline was June 27.

Each plant will run on natural gas fuel with diesel as a backup and must have 90-125 MW capacity with 150 kV voltage, according to the bidding information.
The winning bidder will be responsible for basic engineering, site preparation, supplying the equipment, installation of the plants, training UTE officials and supervising the plants' operations for three months.

The winning bidder will have 150 days from the signing of the contract to install the first plant and 360 days for the second.
The idea of the tender is to increase the country's generation capacity in light of a drought earlier this year that forced UTE to seek imports from Brazil and switch on expensive diesel-fired plants.