New wind project lands PPA in Colombian renewables auction

Wind park. Author: Santi Villamarín. License: Creative Commons, Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic.

A 75-MW wind project was granted a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) in the additional round of the Colombian renewable energy auction.

Colombia's national mining and energy planning unit UPME announced Thursday that the Apotolorru wind farm project was added as part of the auction’s complementary mechanism, a new round designed to ensure that the target demand set by the government is fully met.

The main round on Tuesday ended with bids for 10,186 MWh per day, below the 12,050.5-MWh target set by the country's mining and energy ministry.

The additional round allowed bids to be placed for the missing 1,864.5 MWh per day. In this round, the 75-MW wind farm and previously selected projects split the needed electricity for a weighted average price of COP 106.66/kWh (USD 0.031/kWh/EUR 0,028/kWh).

The results of the complementary round are given in the table below:

Power generators:	Controlling company:	Project name:	Technology:	Capacity:
Trina Solar Generador Colombia - Campano SAS ESP	Trina Solar Limited	Proyecto Parque Solar El Campano	Solar PV	N/A
Empresa de Energia del Pacifico SA ESP	Celsia SA	Eolico Acacia 2	Wind	N/A
Jemeiwaa Ka'I SAS ESP	AES Chivor	Parque Eolico Apotolorru	Wind	75 MW

This week's auction concludes with six wind and three solar farm projects being assigned 15-year PPAs for the supply of renewable power starting January 1, 2022.

(COP 1,000 = USD 0,295/EUR 0,266)

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