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Nicaragua Grants Hydroelectric Power Licenses
Source: European pressphoto agency
Monday, January 10, 2011
The government granted licenses to two companies for operation and maintenance of two hydroelectric power plants.
The permits were granted to Hidroeléctrica Piedra Puntuda S.A. and to Energía Tropical Sostenible Cerro Frío S.A.
"The first permit is for project Piedra Puntuda, which will build a hydropower plant with an installed capacity of 15 megawatts at Mico River, in the municipality of Muelle de los Bueyes, in the Southern Caribbean ... The second permit is for Las Cañas Hydroelectric Plant, in the northern province of Matagalpa and includes the construction of a hydroelectric plant of 1.47 MW of installed capacity, which will use the Yasica river, affluent of the Tuma River ... " states the article in EFE.