Hidroituango: first turbine up and running by July 26, says Duque - Other Cities - Colombia

President Iván Duque, together with the Minister of Mines and Energy Diego Mesa and the Comptroller General Carlos Felipe Córdoba, They visited this Saturday, March 5, the main works of the Hidroituango hydroelectric plant.

The progress of the work exceeds 87.32%, so there is a goal, for the second half of 2022, to start generating energy with the first unit, EPM previously stated.

According to what they indicate, some 8,353 people from more than 80 contractor companies work on the site, in addition to EPM employees, who are distributed in the different work fronts.

It is for this reason that the president took the opportunity to emphasize the importance of begin operations of that first turbine on July 26, according to the schedule provided by the company.

Today the project has the supervision and monitoring of the entire government team and I hope that the delivery date of the first turbine will be met, because that is not an arbitrary date or taken from any hat, it is a date in accordance with the new schedulesDuke assured.

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On the subject, the governor of Antioquia, Aníbal Gaviria, indicated that the most important thing was to “comply with high standards.”

“That it start working as soon as possible, that it not be put in the wheel in its construction so that it starts working but all that on the understanding of the highest engineering standards”, affirmed Gaviria, according to ‘Blu Radio’.

For his part, Duque was optimistic about the progress of the construction: “With this, this great project for the energy security of our country could begin, and this project that is emblematic and, clearly, the largest energy generation project that Colombia has had, and the most sophisticated and important “added the president in his speech.

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