The economic price tag on a potential rationing scenario is the most important thing El País's May 25 expert survey adds to a story we have already well documented elsewhere, including today.
Read moreAndesco, Colombia's public utilities industry body, issued its starkest public warning to date on May 21, laying out five interconnected risk factors it says could drive the country into electricity rationing -- and giving the government a three-to-four month window to act before the dry season becomes unmanageable.
Read moreColombia faces an imminent risk of electricity rationing and sharp tariff increases as El Niño bears down on a power system weakened by four years of poor decisions.
Read moreColombia enters its May 31 presidential first round with four polling firms pointing in the same general direction – Iván Cepeda first, Abelardo de la Espriella second, Paloma Valencia third – but diverging so sharply on margins that they imply fundamentally different results.
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Energy services platform Klik has published an analysis warning that Colombia's electricity grid faces a compounded stress test in the second half of 2026: the coincidence of El Niño, a structural firm-energy deficit, and the surge in demand that accompanies every Colombia match at the World Cup.
Read moreEcopetrol has completed the acquisition of a 49% interest in the JK1 and JK2 wind projects in La Guajira, the first two of six projects comprising the Jemeiwaa Ka'I wind cluster being developed in partnership with AES Colombia.
Read moreThe CREG's 2029-2030 firm energy obligation auction – the result that secured 4,069 MW and CoP$16T in investment – has a pronounced regional dimension that received little attention in national coverage.
Read morePresident Gustavo Petro escalated Colombia's official response to the approaching El Niño on May 22, announcing a package of energy and food security measures via his X account and warning that constitutional tools remain on the table if normal administrative channels prove too slow.
Read moreColombia's electricity system regulator CREG closed its latest expansion auction on May 22--23, securing 4,069.7 MW of firm energy capacity and 15 new generation projects for the December 2029--November 2030 obligation period, with total committed investment exceeding CoP$16T.
Read moreEnergy minister Edwin Palma used an appearance at a major forum on labor conditions in the mining and energy sector to issue his sharpest public warning yet about El Niño's impact on Colombia, while simultaneously reframing the government's energy transition agenda as the only credible response to the country's deepening climate and supply vulnerability.
Read moreThe Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development has granted conditional environmental clearance for the exploration phase of the Nereidas geothermal project, located in the Macizo Volcánico del Ruiz in Caldas department.
Read moreThree industry voices converged in the third week of May to paint a consistent and sobering picture of Colombia's energy exposure as El Niño approaches: the sector is entering the dry season with a negative firm-energy balance, insufficient gas, a crippled Caribbean distributor, and a new generation pipeline that has chronically underdelivered.
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