Ecopetrol has taken full ownership of the Portón del Sol solar park in La Dorada, Caldas, through a merger by absorption in which the project's separate corporate entity will be dissolved and its assets, liabilities, and equity transferred directly to the state oil company.
Read moreThe Ministry of Mines and Energy formalized the Colombia Solar program on March 19, 2026 through Resolution 40159, establishing the technical, financial, and operational framework for rolling out distributed solar generation to households in strata 1, 2, and 3.
Read moreThree state-owned electricity generators formally committed to a new tariff methodology in a high-level meeting chaired by President Gustavo Petro on March 19, 2026, in a move the government presented as a structural measure to reduce speculation in the spot market and lower costs for Colombian households.
Read moreA new multi-stakeholder coordination platform for Colombia's energy transition was launched in Bogotá on March 19, 2026, backed by international funding and designed to address what its organizers identify as the country's core structural problem: not a lack of initiative, but a lack of coordination among the many actors pursuing it in parallel.
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Colombia's Mining and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) released its 2024 Electricity Coverage Index (ICEE), showing that national household electrification reached 93.12% — up 0.45 percentage points from 92.67% in 2023 — as 539,351 new homes were connected during the year.
Read moreEnergy and Mines Minister Edwin Palma met on March 17, 2026 with U.S. Embassy Chargé d'Affaires Jarahn Hillsman and his economic team to review bilateral cooperation and investment opportunities across Colombia's energy sector.
Read moreColombia's gas industry association Naturgas issued a striking warning on March 13, 2026: the country's loss of gas self-sufficiency is producing an accidental reversal of its industrial energy transition, as companies priced out of natural gas migrate toward coal, fuel oil, and other more carbon-intensive alternatives.
Read morePromigas has deployed a continuous intelligent monitoring system at one of its gas infrastructure assets, marking what the Cartagena-based company describes as a strategic step toward carbon neutrality, zero-accident operations, and full digitalization of its asset management processes.
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