The Energy Mining Planning Unit (Upme) notified the connection concepts for energy projects for the coming years. The entity delivered connection to projects totaling 7.5 gigawatts (7,493 megawatts).
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to this process 843 projects were presented, of which 20 were from large generators and the rest from electric power generation. The projects totaled more than 56.6 gigawatts.
According to the entity, this is the maximum technically feasible capacity of
incorporate into the network.
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The technology that had a higher percentage of connections was photovoltaic solar with 5,774 megawatts (MW) with 147 projects. In second place isto wind power with 1,237.8 MW in 10 projects, 6 of which are offshore for 349.8 MW. Likewise, an allocation of 169 MW is registered for 7 hydroelectric projects and a new biomass project.
Altogether, they were 187 projects to which Upme gave feasibility of connection to the network.
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By region, the entity pointed out that where the highest number of approvals was delivered was in Guajira-Cesar-Magdalena with 1.62 gigawatts. It is followed by Caldas-Quindío-Risaralda with 1.29 gigabytes and the development of wind farms in the Central-Eastern and North of Santander was also highlighted.
The Upme said that the connection criteria were increased reliability, improvement of electrical flexibility (possibility to control the resource), reduction of emissions, reduction of restrictions (such as network depletion), reduction of the stock price (cheaper energy), less impact on energy losses and the status of the environmental licensing process.
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“From Upme our human team has carried out a titanic task. While until 2014, for example, we received an average of 10 to 15 requests per year, this time 843 were received between generation and consumption with the same organizational capacity as 10 years ago, a situation that shows not only the great interest in initiatives of generation with non-conventional sources of renewable energy, but also the need to continue strengthening the entity”, assured Adrián Correa,
General Manager of the Unit.
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