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Enel Colombia works every day to guarantee Bogota's energy service under conditions of quality, reliability and safety for all its customers and users.
To this end, the Company is carrying out the Modernization Project for the San Jose Electrical Substation, located at Carrera 19A No. 11-23 and its connection lines, which are located on Calle 11 between Carreras 19 and 24. The main objective is to meet the energy demand required for current and future infrastructure, urban planning and housing projects in the city’s eastern center area, especially Los Martires locality.
The San Jose Electric Substation Modernization Project consists of the dismantling of the current infrastructure and the design, construction and commissioning of a new substation and transmission lines, increasing their capacity. The new substation will be encapsulated type GIS, which means that the main equipment will be inside control rooms and will not be visible to the public, thus improving the harmonization of the landscape. The Company’s total investment in the project will be COP $ 20 billion.
The new substation will have two 40-million-volt-ampere (MVA) transformers, totaling 80 MVA, two high-voltage circuits, and support, monitoring, safety and protection equipment and technology imported from various countries. In July 2020, the Company obtained the Environmental License for this project from the District Secretary for the Environment, hence construction works will begin in the second half of the year.
The San Jose Substation will be fully automated and remotely controlled, which will allow the Company's operation to respond better in times of contingency. The automation systems, as well as their power equipment, will be compliant with the highest international standards.
The Modernization of the San Jose Substation will be developed in accordance with technical, environmental and social regulations, which allows harmonizing the project with the environment, thus guaranteeing its viability during the construction and operation stages through the environmental licensing process.
The Environmental Impact Study (EIA) is a basic instrument for decision-making in projects, works or activities that require an Environmental License. It is prepared in order to know the current conditions and the characterization of the area of influence of the project (where it will be carried out), to establish the possible environmental and social impacts that may be generated, and how to adequately manage their prevention, mitigation, correction and/or compensation. With this study, Enel Colombia's objective is to always ensure respect for the environment, human health, coexistence and property in nearby areas.
The characterization of the territory in the preparation of the Environmental Impact Study (EIA) of the Modernization Project of the San Jose Electrical Substation and its associated transmission line, was carried out in 2019, using primary and secondary information sources, expressed through the field work and the delivery of information by local, regional and national entities and institutions, such as the Los Martires local Mayor’s office, the District Secretary for the Environment, Ministries, institutes and the inhabitants of the neighborhoods of influence.
According to the characterization of the biotic (flora and fauna), abiotic (soil, water and air) and socioeconomic environment, the Ricaurte, La Pepita, Voto Nacional, La Sabana and La Estanzuela neighborhoods were determined as the area of influence.
The Environmental Management Plan (EMP) comprises the set of measures, actions and activities that Enel Colombia will carry out during the development of project works, as part of its commitment to the environment and the community. This is the product of the environmental and social evaluation carried out, and its objective is to avoid, prevent, mitigate, correct or compensate for the environmental and social impacts and effects that may be caused by the development of works and the project’s commissioning. These actions are gathered in the following programs:
Abiotic Component Programs: soil, water and air
These programs seek to minimize to the extent possible the effects that the project could have on the soil, water, air and landscape, preventing and controlling the loss of soil, as well as the proper disposal of construction waste, in order to avoid contamination of the nearby soil or water bodies.
Impact Management on soil resource:
Impact Management on water resource:
With the purpose of avoiding, mitigating or correcting possible effects on the soil and surface waters, this program aims to implement measures for the adequate management of liquid waste generated in the different phases of the construction and operation of the project.
Impact Management on air resource:
With the objective of minimizing the impact on the population, this program focuses on enforcing the limits established in the current environmental regulations, supervising the activities for the management and control of particulate material (dust), gas and noise emissions generated by the construction and operation of the Substation.
Biotic Component Programs: fauna and flora
Impact Mitigation on vegetation cover and fauna:
Implement management and control measures to properly carry out reforestation activities. Carry out actions for the management of animal species that may be affected by the activities during the development of the project.
Socio-economic Component Programs: people and communities
Education and participation program for personnel linked to the project:
This program seeks to train personnel linked to the project such as employees or contractors, through comprehensive training that disseminates and promotes compliance with the Environmental Management Plan (EMP).
Community information and participation program:
This program aims to achieve the construction of relationships based on trust and mutual understanding with the stakeholders of the area of influence, through assertive and pedagogical communication strategies, which guarantee a climate of trust from the provision of clear, truthful and timely information, related to the impacts and management measures thereof, as well as the timely response to requests, complaints, claims and concerns from the community, establishing direct and permanent communication channels between the Enel Colombia social management team and the communities/authorities in the area.
Training, education and awareness program for the surrounding community:
Train and sensitize communities on issues such as safe and rational use of energy, electrical risk, rights and duties of users of public services.
Third party or infrastructure impact program:
It seeks to remedy any possible effects that may be generated on the road infrastructure during the construction phase, as a result of project activities in the Area of Direct Influence. For this, prior to the start of the works, a road inventory will be carried out with the community and local authorities, to guarantee that the roads to be used are delivered in the same condition.
Unskilled Personnel Hiring Program:
This program will benefit the population of the project's area of direct influence, generating temporary employment during the construction of the electrical substation and transmission lines, by hiring unskilled labor in accordance with the actual needs of the personnel required.
Learn about the licenses and permits required to develop the San Jose Substation Modernization Project in a timely and proper manner:
The Enel Colombia Project Management methodology includes social impact management, relationship strategies, participation mechanisms and clear, timely and truthful communication with all stakeholders involved in the intervention, with the purpose of attending to requests, concerns, feedback and keeping the communities and authorities informed about the development of the project and its activities.
Likewise, there is a strategy for Shared Value Creation, the main objective of which is to work with the communities and local authorities in identifying the needs and interests of the sector so that actions are jointly established to fulfill them.
This is done throughout the entire project process, through initial, follow-up and completion meetings, informative letters, personalized invitations, phone calls and emails, posting of billboards in city halls, publication in newspapers and radio slots, personalized attention at the Mobile Customer Advisory Center, among others.
The project's participation mechanisms seek to implement clear and timely information and socialization processes with the authorities and communities in the area of influence. For this, we have different communication channels that allow us to know opinions and expectations, expand on information, and respond to concerns and suggestions of the different interest groups. Find out more!
To view the socialization video for the San Jose Substation Project, click here.
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