Colombia's Ministry of Mines and Energy published a draft resolution for public comment on May 7 proposing changes to the policy governing capacity allocation on the National Power Grid (Sistema Interconectado Nacional or SIN) – a measure framed by Minister Edwin Palma as aimed at freeing up connection slots occupied by stalled projects so that new generation, including clean energy and storage, can move faster.
Read moreColombia's only LNG import terminal, the Cartagena regasification plant, is scheduled to go offline for five days of preventive maintenance from July 30 to August 3, 2026 – deliberately brought forward from its customary October / November slot to ensure the infrastructure is fully available during the most demanding phase of the El Niño weather phenomenon forecast for the second half of the year.
Read moreWith Colombia's FDI down 16% in 2025 to US$11.5B -- and 33% over four years -- the May 31 first-round election has intensified scrutiny of what each leading candidate would actually mean for foreign investment.
Read moreColombia's Superintendencia de Servicios Públicos Domiciliarios (Superservicios) announced on May 4 that Superintendent Felipe Durán Carrón would lead an in-person inspection and surveillance visit to Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM), covering the full range of services the multi-utility provides: water supply, sewage, energy, and gas.
Read moreGrupo Ecopetrol inaugurated on May 4 what it is calling its "energy brain" -- the Centro Autónomo de Despacho de Energía (CADE), an AI-driven intelligent energy management system developed in partnership with ISA that allows the group to select in real time the most efficient combination of self-generated power, renewables, and grid purchases from the Sistema Interconectado Nacional.
Read moreColombia's central bank is sounding a clear warning about the inflationary consequences of an El Niño event that forecasters expect to arrive in the second half of 2026, intensifying toward a peak in September and potentially setting temperature records.
Read moreColombia's foreign investment shortfall -- FDI down 16% in 2025 to US$11.5B and off 33% over four years -- is partly explained by a problem that never appears on a tax bill.
Read moreWhoever takes office on August 7 inherits an electricity sector in apparent crisis -- a gas shortage driving thermal generators toward dirtier combustion, a Caribbean coast distributor on the brink of financial collapse, an ambitious renewable project pipeline that cannot find commercial closure, and a fiscal hole that makes all of the above harder to fix.
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A country that was still debating the viability of electric vehicles just a few years ago has handed the Tesla Model Y its second consecutive monthly sales crown -- a milestone that says as much about consumer preferences as it does about energy transition.
Read moreFrench renewable energy company GreenYellow commissioned the Parque Solar Jardín, located in Valencia de Jesús, Cesar, adding solar capacity to one of the Colombian regions with the highest renewable potential.
Read moreMaría Nohemí Arboleda, general manager of XM – the ISA subsidiary that operates Colombia's electricity market and dispatch system – has given a wide-ranging interview to Valora Analitik that touches on three of the sector's most sensitive current threads: the unresolved legal dispute over a failed Siemens software contract, the growing role of solar generation, and the system's preparedness for a possible Super El Niño later in 2026.
Read moreISA, the electricity transmission company controlled by Ecopetrol, has appointed Olga Patricia Castaño as interim CEO – the second acting president to hold the role since the Consejo de Estado annulled the appointment of Jorge Carrillo earlier this year.
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Grupo EPM closed 2025 with consolidated revenues of CoP$40.6T, EBITDA of CoP$11T, and net profit of CoP$5.3T -- a 9% increase on 2024 -- despite what the company described as a year marked by regulatory pressures, climate variability, and higher operating costs.
Read moreIn an Valora Analitik interview, Terpel CEO Óscar Bravo spelled out how Colombia's largest fuel network plans to reposition itself as an integrated mobility and energy company by 2035, with electric vehicle charging at the center of that transformation.
Read moreColombia's Constitutional Court has unanimously overturned Legislative Decree 44 of January 21, 2026, the emergency measure through which the Petro government imposed a parafiscal levy on electricity generators as part of the economic and social emergency it had declared.
Read moreAfinia, the Grupo EPM subsidiary serving much of Colombia's Caribbean coast, has invested more than CoP$1.3T in electrical infrastructure across the department of Bolívar -- and has little to show for it in the south of the department, where theft, non-payment, and community hostility are erasing the benefits.
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