Is Colombia joining the solar air conditioning game

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Is Colombia a latecomer to solar energy?

Now, unlike Chile and Brazil, Colombia is a latecomer to solar energy, with only 9 MW deployed prior to 2019. Solar deployment was delayed during the pandemic, amounting to only 700 MW (cumulative) last month, but the auctioned farms are still being built and expected to come online in three years at most.

Does Colombia have a wind power grid?

Just as with the vehicle market, Colombia's grid is minuscule for a country its size (probably due to most of the population not needing AC): only 17.8 GW of generation capacity is currently available in the country, and wind energy, despite large projects being built, is basically non-existent for now:

Will solar be a big deal in South America?

By and large, South American countries are relatively sunny, relatively sparsely populated, and relatively stable, so as solar prices come down, expect solar deployments to increase dramatically even in countries that — for now — have been laggards in this transition. And with solar coming in, fossil fuels will start to go out.