Enel mounts 1st module at 187-MW Colombian solar plant

• Renewables designer Enel Green Power Colombia, part of Italian utility group Enel SpA (BIT: ENEL), has installed the very first solar (PV) panel at its 187-MW straight current (DC) La Loma solar farm.

Situated on a 437-hectare (1,079.8 acres) website in the department of Cesar, the solar park will consist of greater than 400,000 bifacial panels placed on trackers.

Currently, La Loma is the largest solar PV farm incomplete in Colombia, Enel stated. The business approximates it will certainly finish mounting all the PV modules within the very first 4 months of 2022, with commissioning set to happen in the second fifty percent of the exact same year.

As soon as up and running, the solar park ought to have the ability to produce over 420 GWh annually, enough to fulfill the yearly requirements of approximately 370,000 clients, Enel Green Power's head of Business Development in Colombia, Adrian Dugulan, kept in mind.

Last month, Enel announced the addition of beekeeping hives at La Loma, thus entering into the agrivoltaic sector.