Battery Electric Vehicles fell for the fifth straight month this year and Tesla had its second worst sales month since February, but Tesla Y was still the best selling brand electric or conventional.
Read moreColombia enters this El Niño with less water reaching reservoirs than in 2015-2016 or 2023-2024: since June, rivers have delivered only three of every four liters of normal inflow, while IDEAM puts the odds at 81% that the event crosses the threshold for a "very strong" Niño.
Read moreXM, Colombia's grid operator and an ISA subsidiary, warned in its latest bulletin that the gap between the system's firm (secure) energy and projected demand will reach 7.76% for 2026-2027 and remain at 7.6% for 2027-2028, up sharply from 5.43% in 2025-2026.
Read moreXM's interim general manager Juan Carlos Morales revealed at the utility's Eighth Forum in Cartagena that the August 10 earthquake pushed the National Grid (Sistema Interconectado Nacional) far closer to a full collapse than previously disclosed.
Read moreCREG's Resolución 101 120 (later amended by Resolución 101 126), in effect since September 1, sets an individual monthly consumption target for each regulated user based on their trailing 12-month average. Users who cut consumption more than 10% below that target earn a bill credit; those who exceed it by more than 10% pay a surcharge, only on the excess consumption, not the whole bill, scaled at 30% for strata 1-3, 50% for strata 4-6, and 70% for commercial and industrial users.
Read moreANIF projects a strong-to-very-strong El Niño could add roughly 0.70 percentage points (70 basis points) to Colombia's inflation, with a severe "Súper Niño" scenario potentially pushing total annual inflation as high as 7.3%.
Read moreFollowing the August 10 earthquake, Colombia's energy sector deployed a technical response to strengthen electrical backup at two Quibdó hospitals, led by Minister María Nohemí Arboleda.
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El Niño is here. The lead graph shows the amount of water flowing into Colombia’s hydroelectric dams and it doesn’t take sophisticated statistical analysis (or ChatGPT) to realize that inflows are in decline and have been since probably March.
Read moreElectric mobility has shifted from a purely environmental conversation to one about costs, competitiveness, and business development, according to discussion at E-Conecta, Colombia's electromobility and competitiveness summit held this week in Bogotá.
Read moreResearchers at Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL) selected the Coffee Region as the site for a study examining whether small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) could feasibly join Colombia's power system, using simulations and computational models to assess the technology's potential in the region.
Read moreCREG director Adriana Jiménez told the Senate's Fifth Commission that the agency is moving to modernize the Reliability Charge, the mechanism ensuring Colombia always has sufficient firm energy, particularly during critical periods like El Niño, after more than 20 years under the current model.
Read moreThe Ministries of Finance and Mines and Energy will present an urgent-message bill to Congress seeking CoP$1.2T to sustain liquidity measures for the electricity sector through El Niño, funded not through new 2026 spending but by reorganizing existing budget line items within the current General Budget.
Read morePresident Abelardo De la Espriella issued Decree 1373 de 2026, assigning Vice President José Manuel Restrepo a broad interinstitutional and intersectoral coordination role covering state modernization, education, strategic resources, energy security, economic growth, competitiveness, macroeconomic stability, and Colombia's international investment positioning.
Read moreEnvironment Minister Fabio Arjona detailed his ministry's measures to shore up the electricity system against El Niño during a September 9 congressional debate on the energy sector, the same session where Minister Arboleda warned tariffs must rise.
Read moreAir-e's intervention marks two years with the financial and administrative crisis deepened rather than resolved.
Read moreGrupo EPM's Innovation Management Model took first place in the national phase of the CIER Innovation Prizes 2026, in the Innovation Platform category, recognizing the group's organizational capacity to convert knowledge into solutions, develop new businesses, and respond to the energy sector's evolving challenges.
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