Researchers from the Universidad del Norte, in collaboration with the Universidad Nacional de Colombia's Medellín campus, are running what they describe as Latin America's first pilot project for salinity gradient energy — or "blue energy" — at Puerto Mocho, near Bocas de Ceniza, where the Magdalena River meets the Caribbean Sea.
Read moreSolar energy surpassed coal in Colombia's annual electricity generation in 2025, according to data published by the Unidad de Planeación Minero Energética (UPME).
Read moreThe Ministry of Housing, City and Territory released a technical guide on March 19, 2026 consolidating Colombia's regulatory framework for sustainable building, mapping eight categories of available incentives and providing practical case studies to help developers, public entities, and financial actors implement greener construction projects.
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This quarter witnessed important advances in major projects like the Bogotá Metro, the first train on the flagship La Dorada–Chiriguaná corridor and, inevitably, a few setbacks.
Read moreEcopetrol has taken full ownership of the Portón del Sol solar park in La Dorada, Caldas, through a merger by absorption in which the project's separate corporate entity will be dissolved and its assets, liabilities, and equity transferred directly to the state oil company.
Read moreThe Ministry of Mines and Energy formalized the Colombia Solar program on March 19, 2026 through Resolution 40159, establishing the technical, financial, and operational framework for rolling out distributed solar generation to households in strata 1, 2, and 3.
Read moreThree state-owned electricity generators formally committed to a new tariff methodology in a high-level meeting chaired by President Gustavo Petro on March 19, 2026, in a move the government presented as a structural measure to reduce speculation in the spot market and lower costs for Colombian households.
Read moreA new multi-stakeholder coordination platform for Colombia's energy transition was launched in Bogotá on March 19, 2026, backed by international funding and designed to address what its organizers identify as the country's core structural problem: not a lack of initiative, but a lack of coordination among the many actors pursuing it in parallel.
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Colombia's Mining and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) released its 2024 Electricity Coverage Index (ICEE), showing that national household electrification reached 93.12% — up 0.45 percentage points from 92.67% in 2023 — as 539,351 new homes were connected during the year.
Read moreEnergy and Mines Minister Edwin Palma met on March 17, 2026 with U.S. Embassy Chargé d'Affaires Jarahn Hillsman and his economic team to review bilateral cooperation and investment opportunities across Colombia's energy sector.
Read moreColombia's gas industry association Naturgas issued a striking warning on March 13, 2026: the country's loss of gas self-sufficiency is producing an accidental reversal of its industrial energy transition, as companies priced out of natural gas migrate toward coal, fuel oil, and other more carbon-intensive alternatives.
Read morePromigas has deployed a continuous intelligent monitoring system at one of its gas infrastructure assets, marking what the Cartagena-based company describes as a strategic step toward carbon neutrality, zero-accident operations, and full digitalization of its asset management processes.
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