The Bonyic hydroelectric project, part of Panama’s power system expansion plan and clean energy project portfolio, seeks to reduce the country’s dependence on imported oil and other fossil fuels. It invovles the construction of a 30MW hydroelectric plant, a reservoir with 900,000m3 of useful capacity, a 37m-high dam wall and an 11km 115kW transmission line between Bonyic and Changuinola.
The project is located in the northwest of the Republic of Panama, has a reservoir of 355,000 m3 of useful capacity and a total volume of 1,380,000 m3, a RCC dam of 38 m high and 173 m long at the level of the crest for a volume of 89,835 m3. Installed capacity 31.8 MW.
The Bonyic Dam is a gravity dam on the Bonyic River, a tributary of the Teribe River about 24 km (15 mi) southwest of Changuinola in the Bocas del Toro province of northwestern Panama. The project produce hydroelectricity at a 32.64 MW power station about 3.8 km (2 mi) downstream of the dam. The builder and operator is Hidroécología Teribe (HET) S.A., a private Panamanian company whose majority stockholder is Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM), a public utility company owned by the municipal government of Medellín, Colombia.
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