Colombia enters its seventh consecutive year of failing to commission the electricity generation capacity its own planning agency projected, according to XM data reported by Valora Analitik on June 27 -- and the timing could not be worse, with El Niño now confirmed and potentially extending into the first quarter of 2027.
Read moreColombia's incoming government faces an electricity system running a firm energy deficit that XM projects will widen every year through 2029.
Read moreJuan Ricardo Ortega, president of Grupo Energía Bogotá (GEB), issued one of the sharpest public warnings yet about Colombia's transmission infrastructure crisis in a conversation with ACIPET reported by Valora Analitik on June 26, framing Bogotá's energy restriction risk not as a future scenario but as a present reality already cutting off new industrial demand.
Read moreAir-e Intervenida issued a public statement seeking to calm the more than 1.3 million users in Atlántico, Magdalena, and La Guajira alarmed by President Petro's liquidation announcement, confirming that electricity service will continue with total normality and that Colombian public utility law prohibits liquidation from proceeding until a new operator has formally assumed service delivery.
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Colombia's automotive sector closed the first half of 2026 with 157,620 new vehicle registrations -- a 50.1% jump over the same period in 2025 -- and, more significantly, a structural shift in what Colombians are buying.
Read moreAcolgen president Natalia Gutiérrez used a Semana interview published June 24 to deliver the electricity generators' industry association's most direct warning yet to the incoming government: the El Niño response agenda is not a transition-period discussion: it begins on inauguration day.
Read moreThe Superintendency of Public Services issued Circular Externa 20261000000624 on June 30, ordering all electricity, gas, water, sewerage, and waste collection companies in Colombia to activate their contingency plans without delay ahead of an El Niño event that IDEAM projects will intensify significantly from September onward, with the Andean and Caribbean regions most exposed.
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Energy Institute's 75th Statistical Review of World Energy 2026 confirms that the energy transition is accelerating in aggregate terms even as fossil fuels continue to expand in absolute volume -- a paradox that defines the current phase of the global system.
Read moreLatin America's renewable energy endowment gives it a structural advantage in the global competition for artificial intelligence infrastructure investment, according to Steven Carlini, head of Data Centers and AI at French energy technology company Schneider Electric.
Read moreXM's Bulletin 348, published June 27, delivered the starkest available measure of Colombia's renewable energy buildout failure: of the 4,475 MW expected to enter the national interconnected system during 2026, only 321 MW -- just 7.2% of the annual target -- had actually connected as of the report date.
Read moreMines and Energy Minister Edwin Palma used a June 18 visit to Sincelejo – for the handover of solar projects to market traders and families in Sucre – to publicly endorse the creation of a majority state-owned electricity commercializer for the Colombian Caribbean, framing it as the structural solution the region needs after what he described as decades of private-sector failure.
Read moreUnder pressure from users and local media over rising electricity bills, Air-e – currently under government intervention through the Superintendency of Public Services – issued a public statement on June 24 explaining that the June tariff increase was driven by market conditions beyond its control rather than by any unilateral decision of the intervened company.
Read moreColombia dropped from 35th to 43rd place in the World Economic Forum's 2026 Energy Transition Index -- a ranking of 120 countries -- during the four years of a government that made decarbonization and the acceleration of the energy transition its defining political banner.
Read moreEl Niño was officially confirmed on June 11, three months ahead of the expected timeline, and NOAA's projections point to a potentially severe episode, possibly the worst since 1950.
Read moreColombia's energy regulator CREG has issued Resolution 101 113 of 2026, establishing for the first time a comprehensive regulatory framework for Battery Energy Storage Systems (SAEB -- Sistemas de Almacenamiento de Energía con Baterías) connected to the national interconnected grid.
Read moreColombia's energy and gas regulator CREG put a proposed demand-reduction incentive program out for public consultation on June 23, framing it explicitly as a pre-emptive El Niño measure following IDEAM's June 11 confirmation that El Niño conditions have arrived in the equatorial Pacific and are expected to intensify through the second half of 2026.
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