Medellín Mayor Federico Gutiérrez says Afinia costs EPM CoP$1.5 trillion a year, and the utility may transfer only CoP$1.5 trillion to the city next year instead of the CoP$2.8 trillion expected.
Read moreSenators at an energy hearing in Barranquilla pressed for urgent funding for Air-e and Afinia and questioned the consumption penalties on Caribbean users.
Read moreCongress's 2027 budget cuts CoP$3 trillion associated with the El Niño phenomenon, according to the Universidad Javeriana's Fiscal Observatory.
Read moreISA has brought solar power to 92 families in 12 rural villages in Bosconia, Cesar, in areas hit hard by the armed conflict.
Read moreSPEC's Cartagena LNG regasification terminal has had a second operational failure in under a month, and will run at 400 mmcfd while one of its four trains is repaired.
Read moreIsagen is selling mature hydro plants and solar parks and reinvesting the proceeds in new capacity, with nearly US$1B planned to add about 800 MWp, mainly solar with some battery storage.
Read moreAir-e says electricity consumption in the electrically subnormal sectors it serves has grown by more than 20%, which the article describes as well above the general trend in demand in the region and the country.
Read moreSuccessfully navigating this year’s “Super El Niño” was always going to take sacrifices by users, lowering their consumption to mitigate lower generating capacity. Not everyone has got the message.
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EPM says low river flows and reservoir levels linked to El Niño at its Hidroituango and Guatapé plants could force it to buy more energy on the spot market.
Read moreColombia's government has presented "Plan Energía Ya," a CoP$2.7T program to prevent a blackout linked to El Niño, and set December 31st as the final deadline to carry out its preventive measures.
Read moreAtlántico Governor Eduardo Verano and several senators called for urgent measures to avoid a blackout at a Senate Fifth Commission public hearing in Barranquilla on Oct. 22, attended by Mines and Energy Minister María Nohemí Arboleda.
Read moreAir-e and the national police have strengthened their partnership against electricity theft in Atlántico department.
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Colombia's reservoirs stand at 76.56% of useful volume, 3.44 percentage points below the 80% level XM considers necessary to face El Niño, despite October's rains.
Read moreXM, the system operator, warns that high temperatures and exhausted grid capacity could bring more localized rationing in the Caribbean, and that a national shortfall would hit the whole system.
Read moreIncauca, the Cauca Valley sugar group, expects power sales of CoP$140B to CoP$150B next year, or 13-14% of revenue, up from CoP$110B in 2026, as it expands cogeneration.
Read moreGrupo Aval says its consolidated sustainable portfolio reached CoP$45.4T at the end of 2Q26, up CoP$1.6T from a year earlier, financing projects that include solar parks and energy efficiency.
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