The Ministry of Mines and Energy has issued Resolution 40208, opening a long-term electricity contracting auction that will award 15-year supply contracts beginning January 2030, with a separate tranche starting 2035.
Read moreTerpel Sunex and Zonamerica Colombia have launched the second phase of their photovoltaic installation at Zonamerica's technology campus in Cali, adding 674 panels to the 880 already in operation from the first phase and bringing the total array to 1,554 modules.
Read moreThe Institución Universitaria de Barranquilla (IUB) has commissioned a rooftop photovoltaic system at its Plaza de la Paz campus, adding an institutional anchor to Barranquilla's broader push toward energy transition under Mayor Alejandro Char
Read moreEnlaza, the power transmission subsidiary of Grupo Energía Bogotá (GEB), has launched E-CoTigrillo, a formal conservation strategy for the woolly ocelot (tigrillo lanudo), a vulnerable feline species whose habitat overlaps with the company's Chivor II–Norte and Sogamoso transmission projects in Cundinamarca.
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A Corficolombiana research report cited by Bloomberg Línea delivers the starkest assessment yet of Colombia's gas supply trajectory: production is in freefall, imports are surging to compensate, and the country is becoming dangerously dependent on infrastructure never designed for the role it is now playing.
Read moreSpeaking at the Naturgas industry association congress in Cartagena, Minister of Mines and Energy Edwin Palma issued a pointed warning to energy sector actors that climate experts have flagged a probable El Niño event — one that could develop into a severe episode — and that preparation cannot wait.
Read moreA new clean energy research and innovation hub has been established in Medellín, with the formal launch of Energy Valley, Centro Avanzado de Energía, unveiled at the annual plenary of the Sustainable Energy Cluster of the Medellín Chamber of Commerce — an event marking two decades of the cluster's operation.
Read moreClimate finance research organization Carbon Tracker, working in association with Colombian transition justice group POLEN Transiciones Justas, published an April 2026 analyst report making an data-based economic argument for Colombia to rapidly pivot its transport sector from internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to battery electric vehicles (BEVs).
Read moreSpeaking at the Naturgas congress in Cartagena on April 15, Energy Minister Edwin Palma used the gas industry forum to address the overlapping electricity system pressures that will define the incoming government's energy inheritance — centering on the Caribbean service crisis, El Niño preparedness, and the structural gas supply constraints that directly condition thermal generation capacity.
Read moreSpeaking at the National Congress on Just Energy Transition and Climate Change Adaptation, Atlántico Governor Eduardo Verano argued that Colombia's energy transition cannot advance on renewable resource potential alone — and that the country's electricity system requires deep structural reform before the Caribbean's wind and solar endowment can be meaningfully monetized.
Read moreThe probability of El Niño conditions developing in Colombia has exceeded 60% in the near term and could reach 90% by September.
Read moreColombia's suspension of electricity exports to Ecuador — in place since January 22, when President Petro halted sales in response to Ecuador's imposition of a 30% "security tariff" on Colombian imports, citing inadequate cooperation on narcotrafficking and illegal mining — has hardened into a firm political condition.
Read moreEnergy Minister Edwin Palma met in Bogotá with Anne McKinney, vice president of the Americas Program at the US Chamber of Commerce and executive vice president of AACCLA, alongside representatives of Drummond Ltd., Baker Hughes, Glenfarne Group, General Motors, Capitol and PepsiCo, in a meeting that reaffirmed the American private sector's appetite for expanded participation in Colombia's energy and competitiveness agenda.
Read moreA study by the Fundación para el Desarrollo del Caribe (Fundesarrollo) and consultancy Barrera Rey – Economic Advisory, commissioned by regional chambers of commerce and industry associations, concludes that the Caribbean electricity crisis cannot be solved by replacing Air-e's management — and proposes dismantling the current single-operator model entirely in favor of three to five territorially specialized companies.
Read moreThe Corporación Autónoma Regional del Atlántico (CRA) is running a pilot project to generate electricity from the current of the Magdalena River using a hydrokinetic turbine – a technology that extracts energy from flowing water without requiring a dam or reservoir, and therefore without significantly altering the river's natural dynamics.
Read morePresident Gustavo Petro used X to attribute the historically high electricity tariffs in Colombia's Caribbean region to decisions taken under the governments of Álvaro Uribe Vélez and Iván Duque Márquez, renewing a long-running political dispute over the collapse of the former regional distributor Electricaribe and its aftermath.
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