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to back the setup of 1.6 GW of solar as well as wind in Chile as well as Colombia. At general financial investments of US$ 1.8 billion, moneying for the

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

operates the monitoring of its PV plants in its NOVA control center in Yumbo, Colombia as well as will certainly integrate meteocontrol's VCOM cloud system to

Invenergy has signed a deal with a utility from Medellín, Colombia’s second city, to together develop “at least” 400MW of solar

240MW solar portfolio, with 5 solar PV plants across 3 different areas within Colombia. This agreement in between MPC Energy Solutions and also Grupo Renovatio is

has actually won the legal rights to create a 45MW battery storage project in Colombia. The project was granted in a public tender introduced by Colombia's

a year. In Latin America MPC is additionally building a 12MW solar project in Colombia, anticipated to be appointed by the end of

a portfolio of solar, wind, and energy storage projects totaling 5.5 GW across Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Ecuador, with 621 MW already in operation or under

Colombia’s National Mining and Energy Planning Unit has announced 27 companies are interested in participating in the pending auction for large-scale solar and wind projects. The exercise will be held by the end of next month. The list of bidders includes Spain’s Acciona, Solarpack and Cobra, Chinese manufacturers Trina Solar and Canadian Solar, France’s EDF and Greenyellow and Italy’s Enel, as well as several special purpose vehicles. The mining and energy department said 26 power distributors will participating in the auction as buyers, including Colombian renewable energy company Celsia, state-owned oil business Empresa Colombiana de Petróleos (Ecopetrol) and Enertotal. Projects selected in the auction will be entitled to a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) and generation assets must come into operation by January 1, 2022. Contracts will be linked to the Colombian peso and updated based on a Producer Price Index certified by Colombia’s National Administrative Department of Statistics. Projects qualified for exercise In a previous, failed attempt to hold the auction in February, 12-year PPAs were offered. No projects were assigned because the offers received did not meet criteria set for ensuring market competition. That exercise saw 15 companies submit bids for 22 projects: 17 of them solar plus four wind projects and a biomass facility. In mid-July, the mining and energy unit revealed it had approved 90 renewables projects with a generation capacity of 6.27 GW over the past years. The agency said 70 of the projects – with a total capacity of 4,353 MW – were for solar parks. Around 800 MW of these projects were approved in Colombia from June to August. The 700 MW Sebastosol facility approved at the end of May is the largest to have been green-lit in the country. The developer is Sebastosol SAS ESP, and the project would be carried out at the Sebastopol refinery in Cimitarra that belongs to Ecopetrol. The oil company last year announced plans to install PV at its facilities, starting with a 20 MW plant for the Castilla oil field, the second largest in Colombia.

team of large energy consumers, collaborated by Colombian power expert Cosenit SA as well as including merchant Grupo Exito, also know as Almacenes Exito SA (BVC:

and also one of one of the most important areas in the hydrocarbon sector in Colombia. Its located in the municipality of Puerto Gaitan in the Meta Province of the

solar-and-gas plant will certainly be the very first hybrid energy facility in Colombia, according to GEB. Cheon Kyo Park, the director general of KIAT, highlighted

launched plants in Spain, Portugal, France, South Africa, Mozambique, Tunisia, Colombia and Mexico, among other

six core markets-- beside Italy, Spain, the United States, Brazil as well as Colombia-- after the group announced a retreat from various other countries to trim its

firms plan to explore the possibility of servicing similar projects in Chile, Colombia and Romania. The total capacity that will be added there over the following