The mayor of Medellín, Federico Gutiérrez, celebrated the closure of the Hidroituango tunnel alongside Andrés Julián Rendón, governor of Antioquia, and John Maya, EPM’s manager.
The alliance’s initial phase involves selected EPM companies, targeting daily reductions of around 1.5 GWh, with plans for expansion across EPM’s subsidiaries.
The event is supported by a public investment of $9 billion pesos from the Medellín city government, which aims to promote literacy, writing, and oral traditions across the city’s 16 districts and five townships.
Video shows the 2024 fair beat the previous high and included nearly 3,500 members of the international business community from more than 40 countries.
Electric generation firms are in a good position after they "successfully weathered low hydrology conditions...with only moderate impacts on profitability and liquidity."