This is the energy project that arrived in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

The President of the Republic, Iván Duque, visited the department of Magdalena, this Wednesday, April 6, to present the Self-Generation Project with the Indigenous Communities of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, where he confirmed “the success of the fraternal and determined union between the State, private enterprise and ancestral peoples, with the common goal of generating well-being for Colombians”.

This is GreenWood Energy's Terra proposal, which, according to the national government, adds to its objective of energy transition. Similarly, he specified that the project will have a total capacity of 144 megawatts divided into six plants, and that it will reduce 1.18 million tons of CO2 during the first 35 years of operation.

The information also detailed that the investment is USD 120 million and will be managed in three phases, during which the construction of the parks will be developed and will benefit 1.5 million people throughout the Caribbean region.

According to the head of state, the project demonstrates “that the ancestral communities of our country are also committed to the energy transition. A transition that must be made in a fraternal alliance between companies, the State and communities”.

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“GreenWood Energy, after three years of constant dialogue, of building trust, of telling communities that they should not only be promoters but partners in these projects, today officially launched the Terra initiative, which will be able to connect to the country's electricity grid, generate employment and bring this new technology to a region blessed by a canicular sun, which is the symbol of the ancestral luminosity of our ancestral communities,” said President Duque.

He also explained that the first line of the project, which will be more than 11.5 kilometers, will at the same time have an investment in protection of about 119,000 hectares, combining the concepts of energy connectivity and the protection of environmental heritage.

“It will allow the community to benefit from the construction of three new population centers that respect ancestrality, which reflect ancestrality and that will also make it known to the world,” he said.

He added that every time he visits Nabusimake (where he presented the project) “he is loaded with good energy, good intentions and showing the world that in Colombia it is possible that economic freedom initiatives can build projects like this one, where indigenous communities are partners, promoters and at the same time beneficiaries. That is the best response to populism, to statism to demagogy, which often tries to confront ancestrality with society; error, gross error”.

He concluded his speech by noting that “this project is an example for the country and for the world, because if the indigenous communities of Colombia become the defenders of this energy transition, they will also be the ones who will teach the new generations, within the same community, that the energy of the sun and that confluence with the ' Mother Earth ', and in particular this privileged one, which has all the microclimates and reaches the highest points of our geography, shows the natural wealth that has blessed Colombia”.

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