Celsia cuts ribbon at 9.9-MW solar farm in Colombia

• Latin American power manufacturer and also representative Celsia SA on Wednesday inaugurated its 9.9-MW La Paila solar PV farm in Colombia, it revealed.

The solar farm, in which Celsia invested police 35 billion (USD 8.75 m/EUR 7.73 m), is comprised of around 29,000 PV modules mounted at a site in the town of Zarzal in the Valle del Cauca division.

The plant will certainly create power for Colombian confectionery company Colombina SA, particularly, for its sweet manufacturing facility in Zarzal. Any kind of surplus power that the manufacturing facility does not eat will be injected right into the nationwide grid, Celsia claimed.

La Paila is Celsia's 6th solar farm developed for industrial consumers-- there are 4 in Colombia, and 2 in Central America. The power business anticipates next year to start developing 30 even more to add around 300 MW, it said.

For the sweet maker, it is the 2nd solar farm it supported