Italian energy group Enel, through its Colombian subsidiary Emgesa, has commissioned the 400 MW El Quimbo hydropower project on the Magdalena river in the region of Huila in south-western Colombia.
The company started building the US$1.2bn project in 2010 after a tender organised by the Colombian government to meet the country's rising electricity consumption. Enel began filling the reservoir in late June 2015 after the completion of the principal civil works, which then led to the entry into service of the first of the plant’s two units. The second unit is expected to enter commercial operation before the end of October 2015. El Quimbo is expected to generate around 2.2 TWh/year of electricity, enough to meet nearly 4% of the country's power demand.
With the start-up of El Quimbo, the Enel Group now has nearly 3,500 MW of installed hydro, oil-gas and coal capacity in Colombia, where in 2014 it generated about 13.6 TWh of power.
Interested in Power Plants?
Enerdata has developed a market research service to screen, monitor and analyse the development of power generation assets.
Power Plant Tracker offers an interactive database and a powerful search engine covering power plants worldwide – including both installed and planned capacities for renewables and fossil fuels.