Colombia's Mining and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) awarded the UPME 03-2024 tender on March 26, 2026 for the installation of synchronous compensators in the National Interconnected System – the first time this grid-stabilization technology has been deployed in the country.
Read moreEcopetrol announced at its March 27 shareholder assembly that construction will begin immediately on the Windpeshi wind farm in La Guajira — between the municipalities of Uribia and Maicao — Colombia's largest wind energy project. The 205 MW facility is targeted for commissioning by late 2027, with a total investment of approximately US$350M across 2025–2027.
Read moreColombia's major electricity holding companies held their annual shareholder assemblies in late March, producing a mix of routine governance decisions and pointed shareholder friction that reflects the sector's broader tensions.
Read moreSome random notes on what we saw in the first quarter of 2026 from a green energy perspective – some longer than others, some more profound than others.
Read moreSpeaking at a high-level intercultural dialogue with Afro-Colombian, Raizal, and Palenquera communities in Barranquilla on March 25, 2026, President Gustavo Petro made his most direct case yet for reconciling the prior consultation process with the expansion of renewable energy – arguing that clean energy development is in the interest of the Caribbean's ethnic and mixed-race communities, not a threat to them.
Read moreISA, Latin America's largest electricity transmission company and an Ecopetrol subsidiary, publicly acknowledged for the first time that it is actively watching Venezuela as a potential investment destination, even as its annual shareholders' assembly in Medellín on March 26, 2026 was clouded by a formal governance complaint from minority shareholders.
Read moreColombia's energy, agricultural, and macroeconomic outlook faces a new headwind: the Ministry of Environment, IDEAM, and the national disaster risk agency UNGRD have all confirmed an 80% probability of El Niño developing and consolidating in the second half of 2026, with a 13% chance of a "super El Niño" — defined as sea surface temperature warming above 2°C — toward year-end.
Read moreThe Ministry of Mines and Energy issued Resolution 40163 on March 27, 2026, authorizing thermal power plants to commercialize imported natural gas on the secondary market — a transitional measure valid for six months designed to unlock underutilized LNG import capacity and broaden gas supply at a moment of acute national shortage.
Read morePresident Gustavo Petro announced on March 25, 2026 that Colombia will withdraw from the international investment arbitration system – the framework under which foreign investors can bring disputes against states before private arbitral tribunals rather than national courts – citing the structural bias he argues such tribunals exhibit in favor of private claimants over sovereign governments.
Read moreEnergy and Mines Minister Edwin Palma represented Colombia at CERAWeek in Houston on March 25, 2026, using one of the global energy sector's most prominent forums to advance the Petro government's framing of the energy transition as a technically grounded, socially responsible process rather than an ideological commitment.
Read moreThe MinEnergia and the Fondo de Energías No Convencionales y Gestión Eficiente de la Energía (FENOGE) announced on March 19, 2026 that the Caribe Cambia Tu Energía program will replace inefficient refrigeration equipment in 12,931 strata 1, 2, and 3 households across Bolívar, Cesar, Córdoba, Sucre, and several Magdalena municipalities, with discounts of up to 40% on energy-efficient replacements.
Read moreThe Petro government issued decrees on March 27, 2026 fixing a 7% salary increase for public servants working in national entities of the executive and judicial branches, with the same adjustment applying to teachers. The increase is retroactive to January 2026.
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