Projects Enel | Enel Colombia

For Enel Colombia, a company of the Enel Colombia Group in Colombia, contributing to the development of the country is one of the things that we perform with excellence and passion. These are some of the projects that we are executing:

Service Quality Improvements:

We consolidate efficient, sustainable and resilient electrical systems, which allow us to improve service quality indicators, generate skilled labor employment (8,000 jobs) and increase the quality of life of the citizens in our areas of influence.

Within the framework of our Quality Plan, in 2017, operations were executed on eight fronts aimed at improving the quality of service. To reduce the number of interruptions, the clients impacted and the duration of the the interruption, the following strategies and lines of action were established:

Increase the number of Telecontrol equipment in a Medium Voltage network: It permits the identification and isolation of any fault in the network, in order to quickly restore the power supply to portions of the line that are not directly affected by it.
Reinforcement in the Medium and Low Voltage Network and new network: generating greater interconnection and capacity, and renewing old infrastructure, in order to facilitate substitutions, reduce the number of electric failures and their total duration.
New substations HV/ MV and MV / MV: create new power substations and medium voltage circuits that improve the capacity of the network thus facilitating the demand growth and contributing to the system’s reliability.

2. Incorporation of innovation and technology:

With our clients in mind, we have been optimizing the performance of programmed activities, those that refer to plans for investing in new infrastructure and maintenance plans for existing assets, all this with the purpose of reducing the interruptions to the service while we perform these important tasks.

We have incorporated innovative procedures such as nightly live work, which allows us to work in an powered line, using a led lighting systems, in order to perform operations that traditionally were performed during the day; live low voltage work, works to undertake programmed tasks without de-energizing the Low Voltage (LV) network; predictive maintenance, serves to idenitfy any possible faults in the Medium Voltage (MV) networks intrinsic components, in this way we are guaranteeing the constant monitoring of the network’s true conditions; live work in platform, this mechanism allows us to undertake tasks without de-powering the network through tasks with isolated live-line platforms (without the traditional buckettruck) in hard to reach areas and roads under concession; and the use of drones has given us more productivity, as well as reduced our employees’ risks of accident.

3. Construction of electric infrastructure projects:

In order to expand the coverage and supply of electric power in Bogotá and Cundinamarca, we are undertaking electric infrastructure projects to support the construction of new housing units, industry growth and new startups in Bogotá and Cundinamarca.

4. Reach non-interconnected areas:

Through the 100 % Cundinamarca project we are tackling the universalization of energy in this department’s municipalities by undertaking energy projects in geographically isolated rural areas that are difficult to access and have higly dispersed users. In 2017, 100% Cundinamarca program benefited 773 families with an investment budget of $ 9,250 million pesos. Additionally, projects to build new infrastructure and expansion were presented before the public support funds for rural energy supply, that is FAER and SGR, in order to reach a total of 397 users, and it has a value amounting to $ 4,700 million pesos.

Additionally, we have furthered two proof of concept projects that seek to bring energy to the most remote areas of our country not connected to the SIN (National Interconnected System). The first of these contemplates the individual solutions, and the second was the installation of a Minigrid in the Paratebueno area, which is the first project for the generation and distribution of renewable energy in this municipality, through which 20 families that previously did not have electricity service in their homes can benefit.

5. Smart Measurement, an opportunity for our customers

We continue to transform the country technologically through intelligent measurement. During 2017, 1996 smart meters were installed in Bogotá and in some municipalities of Cundinamarca, in order to continue with the operational and social project initiated in 2016 of bringing smart metering to customers, and reaching a total of 42,485 installed meters.

By changing to smart metering we have been able to perform remote reading operations, and increase the effectiveness of reading the meters to 89.5%, and we have delivered information about efficient energy use to more than 37,432 clients, through a monthly report that details the days with the most consumption, weekly average consumption and a comparison with neighbors.

6. Digitization of our processes:

We continue to lead technological transformation in the energy distribution business through the implementation of new technologies in our networks, processes and operations, with the main goal of digitizing and simplifying processes, focused on the client and finally offer the city and the region new development opportunities.

Our digitization project includes the measurement and comparison of the digitization level of 27 key processes, redesigning these processes towards business digitization and the review of the organizational and operational model in order to maximize benefits. The pillars of this technological transformation process are the disruptive efficiency, the management of the data-oriented networks, focusing on the client and implanting new agile methodologies into our organizational culture.

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