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March 25, 2022

Is Colombia on Track to Make the Shift to Renewables?

Colombia is investing heavily in renewable sources of energy, in line with its 2021 Energy Transition Law. An offshore wind farm in Britain is pictured. // File Photo: Colombian Government.

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Diego Mesa, Colombia’s minister of mines and energy: “Colombia has advanced by leaps and bounds in our energy transition on a path to net zero. We have already multiplied by almost 30 times the 28 megawatts of nonconventional renewable capacity that came online in 2018. With new investments and agreements, Colombia will see an additional 2,876 megawatts generated from renewable energy come into operation in the coming months. We recently put into operation the first two green hydrogen pilot projects in the country, including the first green hydrogen project injected into the gas distribution network in Latin America. Natural gas is a transitional energy, necessary to decarbonize the transport industry and to give reliability to the electricity supply. Colombia stands out for its rapid progress in renewables. In our drive to build up diverse nonconventional renewable sources, we have achieved very competitive…”

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