Colombia’s mining and vitality planning unit UPME stated that it has allotted 7,493 MW of grid capability to renewable and clear vitality tasks, together with offshore wind, in a aggressive course of.
Including that each one figures had been nonetheless preliminary, the federal government company stated it authorized grid connection requests for five,774 MW of photo voltaic, 1,237.8 MW of wind energy, 169 MW of hydro energy and one new biomass-based energy undertaking.
Ten tasks secured the wind energy capability, together with six proposals for a complete of 349.8 MW of offshore wind. Curiosity in photo voltaic was such that 147 tasks had been allotted grid capability, with seven tasks splitting hydroelectric capability.
UPME stated it had acquired 843 requests — 823 requests for energy technology and 20 requests from massive shoppers — for a complete of 56,683 MW. Within the analysis part, it took into consideration reliability, flexibility, emissions discount, constraints and market costs, decrease affect of vitality losses and environmental licensing standing of the technology tasks.
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