More than $ 466,000 million were allocated from the General Royalties System. The works will benefit residents of departments such as Antioquia, Arauca, Caquetá, Putumayo, Cauca, Nariño, Cesar, Chocó, La Guajira, Norte de Santander and Magdalena.
With resources from the general royalty system, 15 projects were approved that will allow to bring electric power service to about 23,000 families in at least 11 departments.
The report of the Ministry of Mines and Energy contemplates that, for these projects, more than $ 466,000 million were assigned from the General System of Royalties. The works will benefit residents of departments such as Antioquia, Arauca, Caquetá, Putumayo, Cauca, Nariño, Cesar, Chocó, La Guajira, Norte de Santander and Magdalena.
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“This Ocad Paz allocation shows that the royalty resources, contributed by the hydrocarbon and mining sectors, become works that allow to comprehensively improve the quality of life of each of the beneficiary families,” explained Deputy Minister of Energy, Miguel Lotero, from Florencia Caquetá, from where the investment projects were socialized.
These projects will allow not only access to energy, but also to communications, internet, entertainment, improved education and new business opportunities, the official said.
The report from the Ministry of Mines and Energy indicates that among these approved projects is the largest in the sector in the history of the General Royalties System: the Cauca-Nariño Interconnection. This project seeks to benefit 15,699 families located in rural areas of the PDET (Development Programs with a Territorial Approach) municipalities of Guapi, Timbiquí, López de Micay, in the department of Cauca and La Tola, El Charco, Iscuandé, Olaya Herrera, Mosquera, Francisco Pizarro and Tumaco in the department of Nariño.
The allocation of resources for energy in the PDET municipalities represents an integral advance of the peace policy with legality, for the benefit of the 6.6 million Colombians of the 170 municipalities that lack this basic service, indicated the presidential adviser for Stabilization and Consolidation, Emilio Archila.
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The report says that of the 15 approved projects, 12 are individual isolated solar solutions that will benefit 5,847 families with a power of 4.4 MW (Megawatts); similar capacity to feed a municipality like Sopó in Cundinamarca. The remaining three projects correspond to electrical networks of the National Interconnected System that will benefit 16,744 families in the departments of Caquetá, Cauca and Nariño.
Follow the news of El Espectador on Google NewsSince 2018, Ocad Paz has reached 98 projects approved for the expansion of coverage in the essential public service of electricity with an investment of more than one billion pesos, to benefit about 45 thousand families in rural areas of the department. like Cauca, Nariño and Putumayo.