AES Andes launches 61-MWp solar farm in Colombia

• Latin American power company AES Andes SA on Friday inaugurated as well as appointed its 61-MWp San Fernando solar farm in Colombia.

The project was implemented by the firm's subsidiary AES Colombia, which installed over 114,000 bifacial photovoltaic panels each of 530 Wp at a website in the municipality of Castilla La Nueva in the Meta department, Santiago, Chile-based AES Andes stated.

The San Fernando solar farm will create electricity for Colombian oil firm Ecopetrol SA (NYSE: EC) and its transportation and logistics subsidiary Cenit under a power purchase agreement (PPA). The plant will assist the off-takers' procedures in the Eastern Plains meet part of their energy need, the electrical utility stated.

The San Fernando project becomes part of AES Andes' Greentegra strategy, whereby the business seeks to reduce its carbon strength as well as deal lasting energy to its consumers. AES Andes said it had actually signed contracts to provide 10.5 TWh of renewable power annually under the Greentegra strategy given that Might 2018, as well as integrated 221 MW of renewables as well as batteries right into its portfolio.

The business is currently building 1,133 MW of renewables.