According to the National Hydrocarbons Agency, the final list of qualified bidders is expected to be available in December and it will be announced which companies could make their concrete offers in the first half of 2025.
Colombia's National Hydrocarbons Agency announced Tuesday that nine companies have submitted accreditation documents to the agency to participate in the first "Offshore Wind Energy Round."
It is worth mentioning that these documents are the first stage of the process that will allow the Government to determine which national and foreign companies “with experience in the development of offshore energy projects and non-conventional renewable energy sources (FNCER)” will submit offers to obtain the allocation of permits for their development.
These projects will be carried out mainly in shallow and deep water maritime areas of the departments of Atlántico, Bolívar, southern Magdalena and northern Sucre.
Andrés Camacho, Minister of Mines, said that they are “successfully advancing in this first process to make offshore wind energy a reality, which propels us as leaders in the region in terms of energy transition.”
The companies are seven foreign and two Colombian: BlueFloat Energy from Spain; Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners from Denmark; the Belgian companies Jan de Nul and DEME, Powerchina and China Three Gorges Corporation from China; Dyna Energy from the United Kingdom; and the Colombian companies Ecopetrol and Celsia.
“The interest shown by important companies developing these world-class projects, demonstrates the high technical content of the information that was made available to them, as well as the legal security promoted by our regulation, which will surely culminate satisfactorily for the benefit of the country's energy matrix,” said Vice Admiral John Fabio Giraldo Gallo, Director General of Maritime.
It is the first competitive process to generate energy from renewable sources from the sea in Latin America and is led by the Ministry of Mines and Energy, the General Maritime Directorate (DIMAR) and the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH).
According to the entity, the final list of authorized companies is expected to be available in December and it will be announced which companies could make their concrete offers in the first half of 2025. “We hope that in December we will give the report on how many accredited companies will be in our country betting on the energy transition,” added Orlando Velandia, president of the National Hydrocarbons Agency.
