WEG transformers for the Colombian market
The energy supply across Colombia could be made more reliable by the partnership between WEG and CHEC S.A.E.S.P. BIC.
The energy supply across Colombia could be made more reliable by the partnership between WEG and CHEC S.A.E.S.P. BIC.
WEG S.A. has announced that it will invest R$1.2 billion ($244.5 million) over the next three years, to expand transformer production capacity in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia.
The loan will support the Bogota-Region 2030 project for electrification and network expansion.
The Republic of Colombia closes 2022 with three significant electricity projects, including a power transmission link and wind farms.
Four transformers and six shunt reactors with a voltage of 500 kV will be supplied to the northern region of Colombia in the second half of 2022.
Panama: Greenwood Energy is migrating to the development of larger projects, said Camilo Patrignani, executive VP of energy investments at Libra Group.
Colombia: The company has shared the delivery of the power transformer with Celsia Energía in the 115 kV Zarzal Substation project.
The UPME awarded the project for the new substation in the Colombian Pacific, which will start operating in 2025.
Colombia, Ituango: EPM has announced a new milestone in the development of its Ituango Hydroelectric Project.
EPM continues to expand and modernize energy transmission and distribution infrastructure, fulfilling its goal to provide security and reliability to the system.
Colombia: A consortium of four local developers has been awarded a $200 M contract for a raft of power transmission projects on Colombia’s Caribbean coast.
Colombia: Colombia plans to offer three new power dispatch projects to investors as part of efforts to reinforce the regional transmission system (STR) amid increasing load demand.
Colombia, Bogota: Empresa de Energia de Bogota (EEB) is connecting the town of Cienaga in Magdalena department to the 110 kV Rio Cordoba substation as part of the expansion of the regional transmission system.
Colombia, Bogota: Alstom Grid has been awarded a €23 million ($25 million) contract to supply the first 500 kV substation for Empresa de Energía de Bogotá (EEB).
Colombia, Velez: A new power transformer will be commissioned in a few days at Barbosa substation in the municipality of Velez, Colombia, as part the Remos substation upgrade programme.
Colombia, Cali: Emcali Energy, the state-owned electricity provider in Cali, has announced inauguration of the new Cali substation Alferez I in March this year, which will provide a more reliable power supply to several districts in the south of the city.
Colombia, Valle del Cauca: A blown transformer and numerous circuit failures in the Cali power grid caused by heavy rainfall and severe thunderstorm have left thousands of Emcali customers without power.