The Colombian unit of Italy's biggest utility, Enel , indefinitely suspended the construction of a wind farm in Colombia's north on Wednesday after a series of protests by local communities.
, indefinitely suspended the construction of a wind farm in Colombia's north on Wednesday after a series of protests by local communities.
Located in the municipalities of Maicao and Uribia in Colombia's La Guajira department on the border with Venezuela, the Windpeshi Wind Farm project was slated to generate 1,011 gigawatt-hours of power annually, a capacity that would supply 500,000 homes. Eugenio Calderon, the Colombia and Central America manager for Enel Green Power, said the decision "hurts us not only as a company but as citizens committed to the energy transition" and was made after "rigorous analyses and feasibility studies" concluded the project's completion was not possible.
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