News of the second phase came as Chinese companies – Envision in wind and Power China in solar – emerged as significant foreign players in the initial round.

“As you know we he have had much interest in this first round and we have received a lot questions about the next steps … it’s not worth waiting for the second tender so we’ll do a kind of second stage to this tender for those that stayed out because they didn’t qualify or for those that weren’t competitive enough,” energy secretary Juan Aranguren told journalists.

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