Colombia has formally suspended electricity sales to Ecuador, pausing a trade that earned CoP$530.7B between January 2025 and August 2026.
Read morePresident Abelardo De la Espriella met Caribbean governors, mayors and power-sector officials on the night of October 1 to start a roadmap for El Niño and the risk to energy supply.
Read moreA repeat of Colombia's 1992 power rationing would cost about CoP$30.7T, and a columnist argues that unpaid Caribbean power debt has made the system more fragile than it looks.
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The Petro government said we need to have reservoirs at 80%. MinEnergia Arboleda, who ran XM under Petro, now says we should be at 90%. The graph shows that, at the end of August, we were not quite at 80% yet.
Read moreColombian sugar and ethanol producer Incauca expects energy to account for 13-14% of its revenue in 2027, as it moves ahead with five new projects.
Read moreColombia has closed its pro tempore presidency of the Andean Electrical Interconnection System (SINEA) and passed it to Ecuador for 2026-2027.
Read moreThe government has asked Congress to shift CoP$1.2T within the 2026 budget to pay what Air-e owes the power market.
Read moreColombia's biofuels industry has avoided 15.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions since 2022 while moving about CoP$25T over five years, roughly 3% of annual manufacturing-industry GDP.
Read moreColombia's environmental licensing authority (ANLA) cleared two small transmission projects in Cundinamarca on consecutive days, both built to connect data centers to the national grid.
Read moreThe government has widened eligibility for "Caribe Cambia tu Energía," a program that gives Caribbean households a 40% incentive to replace old refrigeration equipment, by removing a ceiling on monthly electricity consumption.
Read moreSenator Gonzalo Baute has formally asked the Energy and Gas Regulatory Commission (CREG) to explain whether it considered the Caribbean's climate when designing its national energy-saving program.
Read moreEnel Colombia is fighting a Bogotá city council proposal that would require the capital's electricity cables to go underground, calling it technically unworkable and financially out of reach.
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