In compliance with the schedule to open for the first time in Colombia a auction for offshore wind power projectsThe General Maritime Directorate (Dimar) and the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) signed an inter-administrative agreement that makes this phase viable.
This agreement fulfills the commitments made by the Ministry of Mines and Energy to start the first round of offshore wind energy, through the publication of the specifications in the month of August.
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“Offshore wind energy developments are essential for the energy transition. They also represent us Opportunities for logistics and port growthas well as investment that will allow the strengthening of the regions”, said Ángela María Sarmiento, head of the Office of Regulatory Affairs of the Ministry of Mines and Energy.
With the signing of the agreement, the ANH is empowered to prepare the specifications and bases of specific conditions of the competitive process, evaluate the bidders and their offers, and select the awardees of temporary occupancy permits.
Meanwhile, Dimar, as the Colombian maritime authority, will award the temporary occupancy permits to the selected companies by the ANH.
“The role that the ANH will have as administrator of the competitive process is consistent with the recent delegation of functions of the Ministry of Mines and Energy to the agency, particularly in the preparation of inputs and the necessary support for the continuity in the formulation and design of public policy in renewable energies such as wind power, including the structuring and progress of processes,” said the president of the ANH, Clara Liliana Guatame.
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Taken from Iberdrola.com
For the first round of designing, it was defined that the area where the projects will be developed will be in front of the departments of Atlantic and Bolivar and each must have a minimum capacity of 200 megawatts.
According to the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), Colombia is in the top 10 of wind potential in Latin America and the Caribbean.
