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Editorial
Antonio García Rozo
Guest Editor
Energy and peace: challenges for the construction of a new rural country
José Eddy Torres
Inclusive and sustainable energy: experiences, lessons and challenges in the framework of a new rurality
in Latin America and the Caribbean
Rafael Escobar
The contribution of energy towards the consolidation of economic development in post-conflict territories:
the case of the Macarena Consolidation Plan in Colombia
Carlos Alberto Ávila Cerón e Ignacio De los Ríos Carmenado
Technologies for sustainable rural energization
Álvaro Enrique Pinilla Sepulveda
Department of Cesar: opportunities for sustainable productive systems using alternative energy sources
Carlos Eduardo Campo Cuello y Yeimy Lucero Rivera Delgado
Challenges and evidence of sustainability in energization processes for a new rural country
Jesús Eduardo Gómez y José Eddy Torres
Isolated microgrids in La Guajira: design and implementation
Nicanor Quijano, Angélica Pedraza, Miguel Velásquez, Guillermo Jiménez Estévez, Ángela Cadena,
Jorge Mario Becerra y Álvaro Ramírez
Sunlight in La Guajira, a potential natural resource for the department
“We believe we can change the world”
Wesley Kading
Regulatory barriers and business schemes for the development of rural energy
Ángela Inés Cadena Monroy
Limitations and obstacles for the development of hydroelectric power with installed capacity
of less than 1 MW
Leonardo Pérez Álvarez y Sergio Gómez Echeverri
“Safe energy menas better quality of life”: strategy for the normalization of energy service in subnormal
neighborhoods in the city of Popayán, Cauca
Ómar Serrano Rueda
Energy for a rural world
Marcela Bonilla
Recommendations for institutional electric sector reform for Non-Interconnected Areas – NIA
Rutty Paola Ortiz Jara
“A town without electricity is a town with no development”: Harold Valencia
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Ingeneering School Memories