Barranquilla's district government signed a joint declaration with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) validating progress on "Winds of Barranquilla," (Vientos de Barranquilla) which will become Colombia's first offshore wind farm, positioned in Caribbean waters off the city's coast.
Read moreCREG executive director Adriana Jiménez said the sector's central challenge is coordinating simultaneous technological transitions across generation, grids, storage, and end users into a sustainable, integrated system, rather than regulating each shift separately.
Read moreAquiles Mercado's El Heraldo column frames global energy security as newly central to IMF and World Bank discourse, arguing that geopolitical instability – chiefly the Iran conflict and Strait of Hormuz risk – has pushed capital toward resource-rich, conflict-distant regions like Latin America, with Colombia positioned to benefit given its energy, mineral, and food resources.
Read moreColombia's electricity sector is navigating one of its most critical stretches since the 1992 blackout – tight supply-demand margins, delayed generation and transmission projects, gas supply strain, generator debt, and subsidy payment delays – with intervened utility Air-e's financial collapse now widely described as a systemic risk rather than a regional problem.
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