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Total Eren and Ecopetrol will develop a 100 MW solar project in Colombia

Total Eren, the renewable arm of the French group TotalEnergies, has partnered with the Colombian energy company Ecopetrol to develop a 100 MW solar project located in the municipality of Puerto Gaitan, in the Meta Province (central Colombia). Construction work on the Rubiales solar park is scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2023 and commercial operations are expected to begin in the first quarter of 2024.

The project will be owned at 51% by Total Eren and 49% by Ecopetrol, which selected the French firm to develop, finance, build and operate the solar park after a closed competitive process. Ecopetrol will be the end-user of the produced electricity for its operation, through a 17-year power purchase agreement (PPA). The Colombian company plans to develop 900 MW of renewable capacity by 2025.

At the end of 2021, solar represented about 1% of Colombia’s installed capacity with 213 MW and less than 1% of its power generation with 338 GWh. In July 2022, Italy’s Enel Green Power began the construction of the 487 MW Guayepo I and II solar park project in the municipalities of Ponedera and Sabanalarga (northern Colombia), which is expected to be operational by the end of 2023.

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