Colombian oil firm to power nonrenewable fuel source removal with 50 MW of solar

• The PV ability being created by EcoPetrol perseverance Colombian pumping terminals at San Fernando and also Apiay along with the oil areas of Castilla, Chichimene and also Apiay, in the Eastern Plains of the nation.

Colombian state-owned oil business Ecopetrol has actually revealed prepare for a 50 MW solar park which will certainly be possessed by its Cenit hydrocarbon transport and also logistics subsidiary.

The nonrenewable fuel source business stated the center will certainly remain in the Colombian district of Castilla La Nueva, in the division of Meta, and also will certainly produce tidy electrical energy for the San Fernando and also Apiay pumping terminals along with oil areas in Castilla, Chichimene and also Apiay, in the Eastern Plains.

Building and construction of the 46ha solar plant, which will certainly include greater than 100,000 panels, will certainly start in the middle of the year with business procedure slated for December. Then, the center will certainly be the biggest self-consumption nuclear power plant created in the nation, greater than two times the dimension of the 20.4 MW Solar Castilla Park completed by Ecopetrol in October.

The oil company, previously referred to as Empresa Colombiana de Petróleos, revealed strategies to buy solar power in August 2018. pv magazine in May reported on the 700 MW Sebastopol PV project authorized by the Colombian authorities. That center, in the community of Cimitarra in the Santander division, is being established by Sebastosol SAS ESP as well as is most likely to provide power to the Sebastopol refinery in Cimitarra coming from Ecopetrol.