Mexico’s energy regulator CRE may tender new transmission infrastructure required for wind development in Baja California and Tamaulipas states through a trust to speed up construction, the watchdog’s commissioner Francisco Josй Barnйs de Castro told BNamericas.

“This is the first time we would do this, and we are now exploring the exact legal instruments for how to do it without [state power company] CFE being directly involved,” said Barnйs.

The trust would manage the collective resources of the private companies that are awarded transmission capacity under CRE’s open season tenders. The trust’s technical committee would tender for the transmission works.

The new mechanism would expedite tender processes for transmission infrastructure, gaining at least a year in the case of Tamaulipas. Baja California may take longer, as new infrastructure would need to be connected to infrastructure CFE aims to develop in 2013 to connect Baja’s isolated grid with the national SIN grid.

CRE aims to define this methodology by mid-February, added the official.

The regulator also has an ongoing open season tender for wind capacity in Oaxaca state. However, as a minimum 800MW in Oaxaca corresponds to CFE capacity, part of the expense will form part of the federal government’s 2013 budget.

It will thus be tendered in 2013 and constructed by the beginning of 2015, according to Barnйs.

CFE plans to award transmission capacity associated with the three open season tenders by mid-February, BNamericas reported previously.

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