The first stage consisted of analyzing the area and location of these families. We then proceeded to georeference their dwellings in order to identify what strategies we had of getting them onto the grid. We located 3,200 households in Cundinamarca, approximately 2,600 of which could be connected in a traditional way, which means to a source of electric networks located in dispersed areas. 580 homes, however, required a different approach, so we looked to renewable energies, either because these homes were in difficult-to-access areas or because too great an investment would have had to be made to provide service traditionally.
Having completed the identification stage, in August of this year (2016), the ‘100% Cundinamarca’ project was launched. We began our initial hook-up work and completed installation for 213 families in Almedias, Sabana, Tequendama, Ubaté, Sumapaz, Guavila, Rio Negro and Soacha. By December 2016, we hope to have 400 more families connected, and by the end of 2017, we hope to have about 2,000 additional homes lit up.
“Electricity changed my life. Now we can bathe daily, store food, and get more working hours out of the day. We can enjoy more leisure activities at home and around the region. You only understand the wonder of electricity, when you have been deprived of it most of your life.”
We contribute to building a more sustainable country for the future
‘100% Cundinamarca’ will connect over 8,000 home over the next 5 years. And it won’t stop there! We will continue connecting families regardless of where they live. Enel aims to build an efficient and sustainable model of electrical connection that will become part of everyone’s day-to-day life and that will open up a window for them to do extraordinary things with their new lives.
‘100% Cundinamarca’ is connecting homes. This creates well-being throughout regional communities, which in turn improves quality of life and societal development and allows us to establish the conditions necessary to helping us empower proper development within regional populations. This is Enel’s way of contributing to the sustainable progress of the nation and to fostering the growth of its economy.
“It is very important for us to improve people's living conditions. Providing electrical service now means more than just lighting up a bulb - it extends to users doing extraordinary things that feed the region’s sustainable growth, the growth of our society and, consequently, that of Colombia.”