Windpeshi Wind Farm, a clean energy generation project

Windpeshi is a clean energy generation project taking place in indigenous communities' territories in La Guajira Peninsula, northern Colombia. The project entails the design, construction, operation and maintenance of a wind farm with approximately 200 MW of installed capacity through the installation of a maximum of 45 wind generators, a booster substation inside the wind farm, a 59.1 km long 220 kV transmission line and other supplementary works.

Location

La Guajira, Colombia

Client

Enel Green Power

Project Value

Transmission Line Construction (CAPEX) : USD $15 Million / Wind Farm Construction (CAPEX): USD $239 Million

Project Status

Ongoing

WSP team and people from Wayúu Community in La Guajira, Colombia WSP Project

The project fulfils the National Government sustainable development objectives related to reasonable, efficient and non-polluting energy consumption, and the generation of clean energy that will add to protecting the biodiversity of the country, ensuring the reduction of the use of non-renewable natural energy sources, the diversification of the energy matrix of the country and the reduction of atmospheric emissions.

Services provided by WSP:

Environmental Impact Studies
Environmental Licensing Process Follow-Up
Support for the processes of prior consultation and guidelines of participation within an ethnic context with the Wayúu community in Alta and Media Guajira
Designs for the 220 kV connection line

Environmental impact and social management studies for the licensing of the project before the Autoridad Nacional de Licencias Ambientales (ANLA, National Authority of Environmental Licenses): The project took place within the territory of 22 Wayúu ethnic communities in Alta and Media Guajira for which the process of prior consultation was applied according to Presidential Directive 10.

To date, the environmental authority granted the environmental license for the construction and operation of the Windpeshi Wind Farm through Resolution 0261 of February 13th, 2020.

Wayúu Ethnic Communities in Alta and Media Guajira

22 22

Capacity (MW)

200 200