With Colombia's presidential election six weeks away, voices from the Caribbean coast are using the transition period to press whoever wins on the region's chronic electricity problems.
Read moreFour months before leaving office, President Gustavo Petro's flagship energy transition program is delivering real benefits to individual beneficiaries but falling well short of the structural overhaul its rhetoric promised -- a gap that analysts say reflects both the limits of the initiatives themselves and Colombia's stubborn fiscal dependence on hydrocarbons.
Read moreJavier Ricardo Ruiz, general manager of Hitachi Energy Colombia, says Colombia's electricity system is under growing structural strain, combining rising demand, chronic project delays, and a dangerous over-reliance on hydropower -- a vulnerability that El Niño will sharpen into a crisis if left unaddressed.
Read moreColombia's electricity users face a two-track tariff threat in the second half of 2026: the anticipated arrival of El Niño, which will shift generation toward costlier thermal fuels, and a government-mandated surcharge designed to bail out debt-laden Caribbean distributor Air-e.
Read moreThe president of Promigás, Juan Manuel Rojas, used the opening session of the Cátedra Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo lecture series at the Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito to issue a pointed warning about Colombia's energy security ahead of a probable El Niño in the second half of 2026.
Read moreMinister of Mines and Energy Edwin Palma used an appearance at the ninth Encuentro y Feria de Renovables Latam, held at the Centro de Eventos Puerta de Oro in Barranquilla, to issue an unusually candid assessment of Colombia's energy security outlook, describing the convergence of climate risk and global geopolitical disruption as "quite a difficult cocktail."
Read moreColombia's Attorney General's Office is preparing to bring criminal charges against three senior engineers involved in the construction and oversight of the Hidroituango hydroelectric project, accusing them of causing an environmental catastrophe during the 2018 emergency that nearly destroyed the dam.
Read moreGrupo Energía Bogotá (GEB) announced on April 20 that it has begun exploratory activities toward a potential listing of American Depositary Shares (ADSs) on a U.S. stock exchange and a corresponding registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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