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CRE and CENACE Publish Call for Bidders to Participate in Long Term Auction
by Marco Antonio Nieto-Vazquez
On March 15, 2018, the Energy Regulatory Commission (the "CRE") authorized the National
Center for Energy Control (the "CENACE") to publish the call for bidders to participate in the
first 2018 Long Term Auction (the "Auction") to award power hedging agreements for the
purchase and sale of power (generation capacity), electricity and clean energy certificates.
CRE has authorized the publication of this call. In the past, the Ministry of Energy published
and awarded prior Long Term Auctions.
The bidding rules will be published on March 28, 2018 on CENACE's web page (the "Bidding
Rules"), and it will contain the requirements and specifications to participate in the Auction.
To participate in the Auction, the payment for the acquisition of the Bidding Rules will be
required, which entails the right to participate in clarification meetings and other subsequent
events. The cost of acquisition of the Bidding Rules will be the equivalent in Mexican pesos to
5,000 Mexican Investment Units (UDIs, for its acronym in Spanish) plus the Value Added Tax.
The calendar for the Auction process is as follows:
| No. | Activity | Date |
| 1. | Publication of the Bidding Rules | March 28th, 2018 |
| 2. | Term to process payments: Bidding Rules, requests of prequalification or registration as potential buyer | From March 28th to August 7th, 2018 |
| 3. | Training session: registry, payments and clarification meetings | April 13th, 2018 |
| 4. | Clarification meetings | From April 23rd, to May 11th, 2018 |
| 5. | Publication of the final version of the Bidding Rules | May 30th, 2018 |
| 6. | Submission of the registry application as potential buyer | June 6th, 2018 |
| 7. | Submission before CENACE of the purchase offers from the basic services supplier | June 28th, 2018 |
| 8. | Submission before CENACE of the purchase offers from the load responsible entities which are not basic services suppliers | July 12th, 2018 |
| 9. | Notification of the quantity, price and parameters of the accepted purchase orders from all load responsible entities | July 16th, 2018 |
| 10. | Receipt of prequalification requests of sale offers | August 21st and 22nd, 2018 |
| 11. | Issuance of prequalification certificates | October 11th, 2018 |
| 12. | Receipt of the first and second stage of the economic offers regarding the sale offers | October 17th and 22nd, 2018 |
| 13. | Review of economic offers regarding the sale offers | October 23rd, 2018 |
| 14. | Evaluation of economic offers regarding the sale offers | October 24th, 2018 |
| 15. | Auction resolution and award of the power hedging agreements | November 2nd, 2018 |
| 16. | Deadline to execute the power hedging agreements | February 15th, 2019 |
The standard commercial operation date for the power hedging agreements to be awarded will be January 1st, 2021.
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Marco Antonio Nieto-Vazquez
Senior Economist (Mexico City/Mexico)
Baker & Mckenzie Mexico S.C.
marco.nieto-vazquez@bakermckenzie.com
+52 55 5279 2900