Enel Green Power starts 29.9-MW solar project in Panama

• Power utility group Enel Colombia said on Thursday it had actually released construction of a 29.87-MW solar farm in Panama, one of its 3 markets in Central America.

The project is taken care of by the firm's renewables business Enel Green Power, which handles its clean power assets in Colombia, Guatemala, Panama and also Costa Rica.

The brand-new solar farm, called Baco, will be found in Chiriqui province on the west coast of Panama. Just beside the Baco website is Enel Green Power's 31-MW Madre Vieja solar farm, presently incomplete, Some three kilometres (1.86 miles) away, the renewables firm has Esperanza, Caldera as well as Sol de David solar plants in operation.

Between 2020 as well as 2023, Enel Green Power spent USD 74.5 million (EUR 68.6 m) in solar projects in Panama, Baco consisted of, Enel Colombia stated.

The Baco plant will be furnished with over 50,400 solar panels installed over a location of 32 hectares. It will share a 34.5 kV connection line with the Madre Vieja solar farm.

Baco's yearly outcome is estimated at some 48 GWh. Enel Green Power expects to have the plant in operation at the end of 2023.

Enel Colombia as well as Enel Green Power become part of Italian utility Enel SpA