The Ministry of Mines and Energy announced on June 12 the creation of a Special Committee for the coordination and monitoring of El Niño response measures across the energy and mining sector, formalizing an institutional structure to manage the climatic risk the government has been tracking through 36 prior sessions of its CACSSE energy security committee.
Read moreThe May 22 reliability charge auction (OEF) awarded firm energy obligations to 15 new projects totaling 4,069 MW of capacity and 143 GWh per day, enough for the government to declare success, but not enough for industry bodies to agree with it.
Read moreFormer Minister of Mines and Energy Amylkar Acosta published a four-point demand-management plan on June 8, arguing that Colombia is already operating under conditions of "maximum hydrological and energy stress" even before El Niño has fully hit and that voluntary government appeals to save electricity are insufficient to manage what is coming.
Read moreColombia's residential electricity prices moved against the broader trend in May 2026: DANE data show a month-on-month variation of -1.93% for the electricity category, even as headline inflation climbed to 5.84%.
Read morePresident Gustavo Petro announced on June 13 via X that he had decided to liquidate Air-e, the electricity distribution company serving Atlántico, Magdalena, and La Guajira, after nearly 21 months of government intervention by the Superintendency of Public Services failed to stabilize the company.
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