Today, Thursday, April 25, the newspaper EL PILÓN holds the forum ‘Renewable Energies, the solution to achieve energy efficiency?’ in the Yui room of the Hotel Sicarare in Valledupar, a space for reflection and proposals around the generation of clean energy to satisfy the demand that exists in the country, but especially in departments of the Caribbean region such as Cesar and La Guajira, and make facing climate change.
The panelists are the senators of the Republic, Didier Lobo and Alfredo Deluque, who will be next to the representative to the Chamber Carlos Felipe Quintero (author of a project that promotes the use of photovoltaic energy in social and priority interest housing) and Óscar Cifuentes Vargas, general manager of Gremca, a company in the agriculture and sustainable energy sector.
LOW LEVEL OF RESERVOIRS
Although more than 70% of the country’s energy is produced with water, the drought generated by the El Niño climate variability phenomenon caused the level of hydroelectric reservoirs to drop and the specter of electricity rationing generated concern throughout the country. , expanding the conversation about the need to diversify the energy matrix.
Despite the recent rains, the April 23 report from XM, operator of the National Interconnected System (SIN) operator and administrator of the Wholesale Energy Market (MEM), indicated that water reserves were at 30 percent, which which is a low level also taking into account that energy consumption has increased due to the heat wave.
Therefore, different sectors have questioned the efficiency of solar farm and wind farm projects in the country for the supply of electricity, and how much they have contributed to reducing energy rates in the Caribbean, since in some cities the The cost has risen up to 30% in the last year alone, while the use of air conditioners and fans is becoming more and more essential to resist the high temperatures that affect health.
LIVE BROADCAST
These and other related topics will be addressed by the panelists during the forum, which will be broadcast through EL PILÓN’s social networks.