Colombia's electricity demand is projected to grow roughly 10% between 2026 and 2030, per UPME estimates cited at Andeg's 13th Energy Forum, straining a system already contending with delayed transmission projects.
Read moreAndeg president Alejandro Castañeda told the association's energy forum that despite tight physical supply and rising demand, the system's most immediate threat isn't a lack of energy but the financial state of the companies that generate it.
Read moreThe national government, through the Ministries of Finance and Mines and Energy, committed CoP$1.5T to Colombia's electricity sector under the newly named "Energy Plan NOW," aimed at protecting service continuity amid a payment-chain liquidity crisis affecting generators, transmitters, distributors, and commercializers.
Read moreFormer Minister Amylkar Acosta argues in this El Heraldo column that delays in building transmission lines and substations have stopped being a purely technical problem and become a direct cost passed to consumers – when the grid can't move power efficiently, the system falls back on more expensive generation, and that markup flows straight into household and business tariffs.
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XM's wholesale market manager Jaime Alejandro Zapata told Andeg's 13th Energy Forum in Barranquilla that UPME projects Sistema Interconectado Nacional demand growing roughly 10% between 2026 and 2030, pressuring both system supply and the transmission network.
Read moreXM interim general manager Juan Carlos Morales laid out the electricity system's core vulnerability heading into El Niño: expected peak demand could exceed 265 GWh on some days, against roughly 118 GWh of thermal firm-energy obligations and around 20 GWh of daily solar – leaving hydro to cover the remaining 120-140 GWh, with no assurance about how long the dry period will last.
Read moreDeputy Minister of Energy Armando José Cuello said technical teams across the Ministry of Mines and Energy, CREG, and the Environment and Finance ministries are reviewing every available option to keep Colombia's electricity system stable through El Niño, though he stopped short of saying blackout risk is fully off the table.
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For some time, I had wanted to look at CO2e emissions from energy over the past eight years. With malice aforethought, I wanted to show were higher – or at least the same – when the “Illuminati” were running the show than during the previous administration. See graph.
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Minister of Mines and Energy María Nohemí Arboleda's administration reported a fast pivot from diagnosis to action in its first ten days, centered on institutional coordination to stabilize energy supply and tighten control over public resources.
Read moreGrupo EPM's electricity marketing companies in Colombia will implement a transitional incentive program for efficient electricity use, created by the CREG through Resolución CREG 101120 de 2026, aimed at reducing regulated demand during periods of energy scarcity, low rainfall, and supply reliability risk.
Read moreAndeg president Alejandro Castañeda struck an optimistic tone on the sector's relationship with the incoming government ahead of the association's 13th Energy Forum in Barranquilla.
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Barranquilla's district government signed a joint declaration with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) validating progress on "Winds of Barranquilla," (Vientos de Barranquilla) which will become Colombia's first offshore wind farm, positioned in Caribbean waters off the city's coast.
Read moreCREG executive director Adriana Jiménez said the sector's central challenge is coordinating simultaneous technological transitions across generation, grids, storage, and end users into a sustainable, integrated system, rather than regulating each shift separately.
Read moreAquiles Mercado's El Heraldo column frames global energy security as newly central to IMF and World Bank discourse, arguing that geopolitical instability – chiefly the Iran conflict and Strait of Hormuz risk – has pushed capital toward resource-rich, conflict-distant regions like Latin America, with Colombia positioned to benefit given its energy, mineral, and food resources.
Read moreColombia's electricity sector is navigating one of its most critical stretches since the 1992 blackout – tight supply-demand margins, delayed generation and transmission projects, gas supply strain, generator debt, and subsidy payment delays – with intervened utility Air-e's financial collapse now widely described as a systemic risk rather than a regional problem.
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