National Environmental Licensing Authority (ANLA) has granted the environmental license to a 100.5 MW Celsia Solar Chicamocha solar PV project located in the municipality of Los Santos, department of Santander, Colombia. project will see five solar plants be built in the municipality of Los Santos, with an estimated annual production of 212 GWh for 30 years of operation and avoids 2 million tonnes of CO2 emission.
The construction work cost about US$65 million, carried out by the Colombian energy company Celsia, belonging to the Argos group.
This initiative is part of the government's policy to promote the use of clean energies with a goal of increasing to at least 70% the participation of non-conventional renewable energy sources in the country's grid by 2030.
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