Batteries are starting to find a place in Colombia's electricity system because solar, now the main option for adding supply, has a daily weakness: its output begins to fall just as demand peaks between 6:00 and 10:00 p.m.
Read moreColombia's reservoirs stand at 78% of capacity as electricity demand rises and El Niño puts the power system to the test, and generators' association Acolgen is calling on households and businesses to cut their consumption.
Read moreAfinia, EPM's distribution subsidiary in the Caribbean, paid CoP$131 billion to market operator XM on October 29th, suspending a supply limitation that was due to start the next day and would have cut service to about 1.5 million users in Bolívar, Córdoba and Sucre.
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ISA's net income for the first nine months of 2026 fell 3% to CoP$1.79 trillion, which the company attributes mainly to the stronger Colombian peso against the currencies of the countries where it operates. Excluding that effect, it says, net income would have risen 5%.
Read moreTerpel Sunex, a subsidiary of Organización Terpel, is installing 2,633 solar panels at eight sites of the family compensation fund Compensar, which expects to cut energy use at those sites by about 30%
Read moreHidroituango's reservoir has reached the 420-meter level, the level EPM had been working toward, after heavy rains last month raised the flow of the Cauca River.
Read moreThe government is developing a "supply statute" to bring guaranteed energy into Colombia's power system and narrow the gap between supply and demand as El Niño approaches, Energy Vice Minister Alex Cañas said.
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