Panama solar development pipeline gaining traction


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Keira Development has submitted an EIS to Panama’s environment ministry for the 44MW Chumical I solar project. Keira, controlled by local group Green Energy Developers, holds a provisional license granted by public services regulator Asep for the planned US$32mn photovoltaic plant. The park would be built in the Urracá area of Santiago district, Veraguas province and connect to the national […]

April 27, 2021

Permitting deadline for Colombia-Panama link pushed back to 2023


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Panama’s public services regulator Asep has granted additional time to Interconexión Colombia Panamá (ICP) to submit required documents for the planned power interconnection between the countries. ICP now has until March 2023 to file the approved environmental impact study for the link’s construction and operation. Under the last extension, the deadline had been September 2020, when the developer […]

April 20, 2021

Studies for Line 5 of the Panama Subway


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The Central American Bank for Economic Integration will execute a non-reimbursable Technical Cooperation to carry out studies to identify the feasibility of developing the railway network of Line 5 of the Panama Subway. The non-reimbursable Technical Cooperation amounts to $630,000 and was recently approved by the Republic of Korea within the framework of the CABEI-Korea Sole […]

April 20, 2021

12 Tons of green exportable coffee heading to Japan


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Saturday at 6 am, our team was gathered on Finca Cuatro Caminos, where our coffee mill, laboratory, and storage facility is located, to load 12 tons of coffee into a container bound for Japan. There were mixed emotions of both excitement and relief, as this container was initially scheduled to set sail in the summer […]

April 20, 2021

Vancouver’s historical connection to Panama


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After seven years’ work, George Washington Goethals finished the Panama Canal in 1914, completing a task that stymied two other engineers. He commenced his first real engineering work as a lieutenant at the Vancouver Barracks, and performed many routine duties, including planning the headquarters building, designing the new post cemetery, mapping telegraph lines and creating […]

April 20, 2021