EPM completes $52 M energy works
EPM continues to expand and modernize energy transmission and distribution infrastructure, fulfilling its goal to provide security and reliability to the system.
Colombia: Fulfilling its goals to provide greater security and reliability to the electrical system, improve the provision of service to the community, guarantee new connections and meet future needs, EPM continues to expand and modernize its energy transmission and distribution infrastructure.
Last October, the Carepa Substation Standardization project started operation, which will allow for the growth of demand and the connection of new users to the energy distribution system, improving the reliability of this system.
Also in October, the works on the Expansion of the Urabá substation project, shared by EPM with Intercolombia, a subsidiary of ISA, were completed.
Works such as the connection of the Urabá-Nueva Colonia-Apartadó substations and the replacement of the Chorodó-Caucheras power transmission line, between the municipalities of Cañasgordas and Mutatá, among others, are in design.
In the Aburrá Valley, the extension of the Itagüí Substation was completed and the replacement of equipment in the Ancón Sur and Bello substations was completed. In 2020, this replacement will continue in the substations Castilla, Barbosa, Belén, Miraflores and Envigado, as well as in others in the East of Antioquia. In addition, the extensions and modernizations of the Central, Guayabal and Rodeo substations, located in the urban area of Medellín, will be developed.
EPM completed the modernization of seven mobile substations, the acquisition of five and the construction of six more, which will guarantee the timely attention of events, maintenance and projects related to the substation infrastructure in the region.
Source: BN Americas