Bogotá, Might 2024. Banco de Bogotá has recognized the wants and challenges that the nation has to diversify the electrical energy era matrix within the nation and has developed particular strains of sustainable financing to advertise the transition to a low-carbon financial system.
In 2023, the Financial institution supported the financing of one of the crucial vital photo voltaic tasks: Portón del Sol. With this, 237,000 photo voltaic panels have been put in to generate a peak energy of 129MW. This undertaking by Enerfín, a subsidiary of the Elecnor Group (knowledgeable in infrastructure tasks, renewable energies and new applied sciences), generates 263 gigawatt hours (GWh) per 12 months and reduces emissions by 132,480 tons. of carbon dioxide per 12 months.
For its half, thus far this 12 months, the Financial institution of Bogotá has disbursed half a billion pesos to finance photo voltaic vitality tasks, together with the financing of 4 photovoltaic photo voltaic parks that generate roughly 1,345 GWh of vitality per 12 months, greater than 800 MWp of energy and keep away from greater than 200 thousand tons of CO2eq/12 months. This represents the required vitality consumption of practically 500 thousand properties.
“Based on SER Colombia, the portfolio projected for 2024 totals 66 tasks, 3,040MW of recent capability, together with tasks in testing, underneath building and in improvement contingent on procedures. On this panorama, banking performs a elementary position to finance and supply capital by means of monetary options that modify to the wants of every undertaking. At Banco de Bogotá we search to be strategic allies for our shoppers, providing services that facilitate the implementation of photo voltaic vitality tasks. By supporting firms, we not solely contribute to the financial development of the nation, but in addition to the environmental and social well-being of our communities,” mentioned Isabel Cristina Martínez, vice chairman of Sustainability and Company Companies at Banco de Bogotá.
Likewise, to facilitate the transition means of microbusinesses, small and medium-sized firms, the Financial institution of Bogotá launched the photo voltaic panel mortgage to finance the set up of photo voltaic photovoltaic programs beginning at $800,000, permitting a discount within the electrical energy invoice by as much as 80%. Photo voltaic vitality tasks signify 14% of the Financial institution’s whole inexperienced portfolio, which totals $2.6 trillion, on the finish of 2023. In recent times, the entity has grown disbursements in photo voltaic vitality greater than 189 instances, which which exhibits the significance of getting a differential provide on this sector.
Likewise, to advance compliance with the decarbonization of its portfolio, Banco de Bogotá accompanies its shoppers within the improvement of tasks that contribute to decreasing their influence within the face of local weather change and the safety of biodiversity, in classes equivalent to building and sustainable infrastructure, round financial system, sustainable agriculture and tourism, amongst others; selling the consolidation of an financial system accountable for the surroundings and society.
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2024-06-13 07:43:41
