Colombia
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IDB Invest has issued 2 sustainable bonds in local currency to support renewable energy and infrastructure projects in Latin America.
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Colombia power company Celsia is considering selling a duo of wind projects located in the department La Guajira, Colombia.
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Italy’s Enel Green Power has started commercial operations of its La Loma solar project in Colombia.
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Energía de Colombia SAS ESP has requested a loan from IDB Invest for a transmission project the company is refinancing in Colombia.
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Colombian oil and gas company Ecopetrol has raised $1.85 billion in bonds that will be used to mainly refinance existing notes.
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IDB Invest has agreed to provide long-term financing to Air-e to support the company’s distribution services in Colombia.
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Brazilian utility Alupar won a transmission project in an auction launched in August by Colombia's Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME).
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Colombian infrastructure company Interconexión Eléctrica SA (ISA) has secured an up to COP$500 million ($124 million) loan.
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Colombian energy company Grupo Energía Bogotá (GEB) has issued a $400 million green bond, the first such bond issued by a Colombian company on the international market.
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EDF Renewables has pulled the plug on the development of a 50MW solar project in Colombia, due to delays in permitting and environmental licenses from local entities.
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Renewable energy company BayWa r.e., through its subsidiary BayWa r.e. Solar Trade, has opened a solar distribution center in Medellín, Colombia.
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Colombian power producer Isagen has landed financing to support the development of the company’s Sabanalarga solar project.
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Colombian power company Isagen has announced a partnership with Atlas Renewable Energy to develop solar projects.
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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and financial advisory firm LarrainVial have closed a COP900 billion ($200 million) Colombia-focused debt fund.
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Czech renewables developer Solek is entering the renewables market in Colombia with two solar projects.
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Colombian power company Celsia has turned on a 9.9MW solar farm in Valle del Cauca, Buga I, having agreed offtake agreements with agricultural business, Solla, and food processing company, Alianza team.
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Colombian energy distributor Air-e has requested a loan from IDB Invest to support the development of its distribution services.
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Chile’s Verano Energy is growing its portfolio in Colombia with the acquisition of a trio of solar projects totaling 296MWp of installed capacity.
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Spanish renewables firm Ecoener will close a deal to finance its Colombian Sunnorte Solar PV Plant in May.
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French solar developer GreenYellow has started construction on five utility-scale solar projects in Colombia.
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Spain’s Enerfín has landed a loan to finance the construction of the company’s first solar project in Colombia.
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The government of Colombia will tender a 500/230kV transmission substation project, the first such tender in in the country.
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Netherlands-based renewables company MPC Energy Solutions announced the completion of construction and grid connection for its Parque Solar Los Girasoles.
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Mexico-based solar power producer Cox Energy America has secured 45MW worth of solar PV capacity in a grid allocation tender held by Colombia.
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Colombia's Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) has granted permits to connect close to 7.5GW of renewable energy to the national grid.
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Spanish renewables firm Grenergy will develop three PV solar plants in Colombia.
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EDF and environmental services company Refocosta are partnering on the development of a biomass power plant in Colombia.
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State-owned hydro and utility company Urrá’s Aquasol solar complex is close to completion, the firm announced on Friday (13 January 2023).
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Colombia’s state-owned petroleum firm Ecopetrol has selected French-based energy producer Total Eren to build a 100MWp solar farm at its Rubiales oilfield.
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EDF Renewables has won long-term power purchase agreements in a renewable energy auction in Colombia.
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Colombia’s state-owned petroleum firm Ecopetrol announced today that it will invest between COP 5.9 trillion ($1.23bn) and COP 6.8 trillion in energy transition projects in 2023.
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Enel has landed COP$449 billion ($93.7 million) in financing from Bancolombia to support the company’s decarbonization strategy and electrification expansion.
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Colombia’s National Authority of Environmental Licenses (ANLA) has granted the greenlight to four solar projects.
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Spanish renewable developer Solarpack has landed financing for a pair of solar assets the company is planning in Colombia.
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Transmisora Colombiana de Energía (TCE) has secured financing to complete the construction of a transmission project in Colombia.
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Spanish solar developer Cox Energy has received the greenlight to trade within Colombia’s wholesale energy market.
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Colombian power producer ISAGEN has started construction of the Sabanalarga solar project.
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Enel has found an offtaker for the Guayepo solar complex the company is developing in Colombia.
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Irene Vélez Torres has been appointed to lead Colombia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy under the new administration, effective August 11.
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Colombian energy distributor Air-e has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with France's EDF Renewables that will see the two companies co-develop wind projects in the country.
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Colombia is moving forward with its plans to promote offshore wind energy after releasing the country's roadmap earlier this year.
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Milton Fernando Montoya Prado is joining Holland & Knight’s energy and natural resources team in Colombia as of counsel, based in Bogotá.
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The Ministry of Mines and Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Arab Emirates to foster cooperation within the energy sector in both countries.
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Enel Colombia has landed a COP 411 billion ($93.4 million) sustainability-linked financing from Bancolombia.
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Enel Green Power has started construction of the largest solar project in South America, located in Colombia.
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The Ministry of Mines and Energy has selected ten projects that will see the development of green hydrogen in Colombia.
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Chinese renewable developer Trina Solar has started commercial operations of a duo of solar projects in Colombia.
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Grupo Energía Bogotá (GEB) has announced plans to build Colombia’s first hybrid solar-gas plant with support from the government of South Korea.
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Colombia’s Celsia has secured a revolving credit line from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to support the company's ESG goals, including carbon emissions reduction.
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ABO Wind has found an offtaker in energy distributor Air-e for a solar project that the German company is developing in Colombia.
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FENOGE, the fund for non-conventional energies and efficient energy management has received 58 project proposals in its +H2 Colombia tender launched last March in collaboration with the Ministry of Mines and Energy.
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Colombian energy company Celsia is developing 17 projects in the country for an aggregate capacity of 260 MW.
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Colombia’s Ecopetrol is partnering with six foreign companies to develop clean hydrogen to decarbonize the firm’s activities in the country.
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Bancolombia has requested a COP 640 billion ($160 million) loan from IDB invest to support the bank’s sustainable finance portfolio.
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The Colombian oil company Ecopetrol, in cooperation with the Ministry of Energy and Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, has committed $11 million dollars to the energy transition in the country.
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The mayor of Bogotá has announced plans to build Colombia’s first waste-to-energy plant, to be procured as a 30-year concession.
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AES Colombia has secured a more than $93 million sustainable loan to support the development of a solar park located in the Huila department of Colombia.
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BlueFloat Energy has announced plans to develop 5.2 GW of offshore wind projects off the coast of Colombia after the government unveiled its roadmap for project development.
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The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a subsidiary of the World Bank, has committed $10 million to promote renewable energy in Colombia.
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Monómeros, the Colombian agricultural and industrial group, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with public lighting company APBAQ to develop green ammonia in the country.
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Enerland, the Spanish renewable energy developer, is starting the construction of two solar parks in Colombia.
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Spanish renewables developer Solarpack has requested $78 million in financing from IDB Invest for two Colombian solar PV assets.
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Canadian Solar, the Ontario-based solar developer, has secured a $50 million revolving credit facility from Scotiabank to finance its portfolio of solar projects in Latin America.
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Greenwood Energy, the renewable subsidiary of the Libra Group, has unveiled its Terra Initiative, a 144 MW solar project in Colombia.
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Enel Colombia has committed to invest COP3.1 billion ($827,000) in its renewable subsidiary Enel Green Power over the next three years.
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Colombian utility Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) has launched a public tender for the construction of its 83MW project, its first solar project.
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Mainstream Renewable Power has inked its first power purchase agreement in Colombia.
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Colombian utilities conglomerate Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) has secured a 50-year extension to its operating concession for three hydroelectric plants in northern Antioquia.
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Energy firm Celsia and local bank Bancolombia have partnered to create a new investment platform to develop solar assets for businesses in Colombia.
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Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) is expected to ink a memorandum of understanding this week to develop the first large-scale offshore wind farm in Latin America.
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Colombian business regulator Superintendencia de Sociedades de Colombia has approved the planned merger of Enel’s Colombian subsidiaries.
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Spanish development fund COFIDES has agreed to invest equity in transmission concessionaire Energía de Colombia.
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The Latin America-focused Ashmore Andino III Fund has held a first close at COP664.15 million ($168 million).
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Matrix Renewables has agreed to develop and operate two new solar plants in Latin America through a partnership with Allcot Group.
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Holland & Knight has recruited Camilo Gantiva Hidalgo as a partner in its capital markets and financial law practices in Bogotá, Colombia.
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MPC Energy Solutions has started construction on its second solar project in Colombia.
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Colombian utility Air-e has received interest from 22 companies for its first private power auction in the country.
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Two international banks are nearing close on a bridge debt package for a roughly 200 MW gas-fired power plant in Colombia.
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Further details have emerged on Colombian transmission firm Interconexión Eléctrica (ISA)’s first bond issuance in the international capital markets.
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Colombia’s Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) is planning the launch of a procurement process for a transmission project in the department of Antioquia.
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Colombia’s Empresas Publicas de Medellin is in talks with IDB Invest to determine the terms of the prepayment of the debt covering the sponsor’s 2.4 GW Ituango hydro project in northern Colombia.
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Colombia’s Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) is working on a procurement process for the development of a substation and related transmission lines in the department of Casanare.
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A Latin America-focused executive has gone back to Northland Power after a year and a half at another firm.
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Law firm Garrigues has promoted Francisco Noguera to partner at its Bogotá office.
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Colombian transmission firm Interconexión Eléctrica (ISA) has closed its first bond issuance in the international capital markets.
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Grupo Argos-owned Celsia has issued green bonds to finance the development of its solar pipeline in Colombia.
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AES Colombia has won a contract to develop a 26 MW (DC) solar facility that will be owned by Colombian firm Ecopetrol.
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Engie Colombia, the local subsidiary of French developer Engie, has inked an agreement to acquire a 76 MW solar park in the country, marking its entrance in Colombia’s renewable market.
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Further details have been revealed on three of the power projects that secured power purchase agreements in Colombia's renewable power auction held in late October.
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Colombian utility Air-e has published a rough timeline for its first private power auction in the country.
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Solar generation has dominated Colombia's third renewable power auction, with projects totaling 796.3 MW being awarded 15-year power purchase agreements.
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AES Andes, previously known as AES Gener, and oil firm Ecopetrol have brought online what is being touted as the largest solar project in Colombia.
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Matrix Renewables, a portfolio company of private equity firm TPG, has clinched a debt package for an operating solar complex in Colombia.
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Colombian utility Air-e has announced that it is readying its first private power auction to procure renewable energy generation.
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Colombian developer Empresas Publicas de Medellin (EPM) has received permission from the national finance ministry to raise funds for its 2021-2023 planned investments.
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Colombian developer Axia Energia has refinanced an 88 MW dual-fuel reserve power plant in the country's Magdalena department.
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Petroeléctrica de los Llanos has begun the permitting process for a transmission project in the Colombian department of Casanare.
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Renovatio Trading, now known as Spectrum, has struck a deal to buy a portfolio of solar assets in Colombia.
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Colombia’s grid operator XM Compañía de Expertos en Mercados has revealed the identities of the 69 prospective participants in the country’s third renewable power auction.
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Colombian developer Empresas Publicas de Medellin (EPM) has begun the permitting process for a roughly 100 MW wind farm in the country.
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