Enlaza, the transmission subsidiary of Grupo Energía Bogotá (GEB), has energized circuits 1 and 2 of the Cuestecitas to La Loma section of the Colectora project at 500 kV, a double-circuit line meant to carry La Guajira's renewable power into the national grid.
Read moreOnly 730 MWp of the 4,475 MWp of new capacity due this year has entered service, and 275 energy projects are more than a year behind schedule, Mines and Energy Minister María Nohemí Arboleda said in presenting the action plan under Plan Energía Ya.
Read moreSuperservicios is stepping up inspections of thermal generators to check that they are available and able to meet their reliability-charge obligations before El Niño's dry season, and has warned of administrative action and sanctions for any breach.
Read moreVenezuela's National Assembly has unanimously approved a reform of its Organic Law on the Electric System and Service that lets private and mixed companies generate electricity, a segment reserved for State companies since
Read moreAn explosive device damaged Celsia's Amaime hydroelectric plant in rural Palmira on Tuesday, November 10th, with no injuries reported, and the generators' association Acolgen has asked the government for a national plan to protect energy infrastructure.
Read moreAfinia estimates it loses about 140 million kWh a month to illegal connections and meter tampering, which it values at about CoP$140 billion of energy that is neither recorded nor billed, and says it is intensifying controls.
Read moreColumnist Aquiles Mercado argues in El Heraldo that unpaid electricity bills in the Caribbean have become a national supply risk as El Niño approaches, because the thermal plants that would cover a hydro shortfall are running short of cash.
Read moreBatteries 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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