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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

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

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

supervisor Partners Group Holding AG (SWX: PGHN) will acquire the assets from Colombian power firm Celsia SA, part of residential empire Grupo Argos. Financial

which will certainly include solar centers in Spain, Chile, Mexico and also Colombia, will compete two-and-a-half years, with the PV plants good to go to be

numerous that, up by 284% on the year. After linking a 12-MW solar farm in Colombia in the second quarter, Grenergy's IPP organization currently has 578 MW of

projects throughout Europe as well as Latin America, especially Spain, Chile, Colombia as well as Mexico. The projects are worth around $700 million in total, some

German possession supervisor MPC Capital, has other projects in El Salvador, Colombia, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and also, considering that September, in the Dominican

will certainly be deployed in Italy, Spain, Turkey, Greece, Serbia and also Colombia by 2030, PASH Global stated on Wednesday. Under the strategy, power from 10 GW

developed over 2 GW of projects mainly in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, and Colombia, with a focus on agrivoltaics.The sale of DVP represents the first divestment

group operates.Grupo Hycsa, which currently operates in Mexico, El Salvador, Colombia, and Bolivia, has three main business lines including construction, extraction