Colombia granted enviro permits for 1.6 GW of wind, solar in 2022

Colombian environmental licensing authority ANLA approved eight non-conventional renewable energy projects totalling 1,631 MW in 2022, the body said in its annual sustainability report released on Wednesday.

This potential capacity is distributed between two wind and six solar PV projects. Since ANLA was in charge of their licensing and not a regional body, all projects are designed for at least 100 MW.

Four of the solar projects were approved within the first 100 days of president Gustavo Petro’s government last year, as ANLA announced at the time. These are the 300-MW Puerta de Oro, the 200-MW Guayepo, the 200-MW Guayacanes and the100-MW Andromeda development.

The two other solar projects are the Shangri-La and the Escobal, with the latter expected to be a complex of five solar farms, according to ANLA’s report.

The approved wind projects are the 347.2-MW Casa Electrica from the company Jemeiwaa Ka’I and the EO200i scheme, which will have between 200 MW and 224 MW, depending on the nominal wind turbine capacity.

With these eight in 2022, there are 20 projects for non-conventional renewables approved by ANLA so far. Their combined installed capacity will amount to 4,187 MW, a figure that stands high above 1,500 MW of renewables that the Colombian government hoped to enable in 2018-2022, ANLA added.

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