Colombia's electricity system is running a firm energy deficit that will widen every year through 2029, according to data from XM, the national electricity market operator, reported by Valora Analitik on June 22.
Read moreThe Petro government used the week of June 17-20, just before the final presidential vote, to announce a cluster of solar energy deliveries and regulatory changes spanning five different types of project, as it pushed to consolidate its Colombia Solar and Comunidades Energéticas programs before the August 7th transition
Read moreColombia's Ministry of Mines and Energy has designated Karen Schutt -- currently an expert commissioner at CREG and a former deputy energy minister -- as technical manager of the Sectoral Committee created under Resolution 40269 of 2026 to coordinate the government's response to El Niño and oversee strategic infrastructure milestones, including the scheduled maintenance at the SPEC regasification terminal in Cartagena.
Read moreThe Caribbean electricity crisis has become one of the most urgent files awaiting Abelardo de la Espriella on August 7, and it is a substantially worse problem than the one the Petro government inherited in 2024.
Read moreColombia's energy and gas regulator CREG has issued Resolution 101 114 of 2026, establishing a permanent regulatory framework for activating additional generation capacity and demand flexibility tools whenever the National Interconnected System (SIN) faces critical hydrology conditions.
Read moreColombia's main electricity and public services industry associations lined up on June 22 to congratulate president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella and put forward a shared framework for engagement with the incoming government, according to El Heraldo.
Read moreVenezuela has signed a memorandum of understanding with GE Vernova – the energy technology company responsible for generating approximately 25% of global electricity, spun off from General Electric – to develop projects aimed at improving the country's chronically deficient power supply.
Read moreLong-time readers will know that tariff-setting is an ongoing problem for Colombian regulators and politicians. Turns out the European Union has the same issues.
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Colombia's El Niño weather event has arrived, and the country enters the dry season with reservoir levels already running roughly 10 percentage points below where they should be. XM, the electricity market operator and ISA subsidiary, warned as of June 17 that under scenarios resembling the driest episodes in the historical record, aggregate reservoir levels could descend to approximately 30% of useful capacity by the time the phenomenon peaks – far below the 80%-plus level that XM considers the minimum adequate entry point into the dry season.
Read moreEPM's Tepuy photovoltaic solar park in La Dorada, Caldas received ISO 9001:2015 certification from Colombia's national standards body Icontec on June 10, recognizing the quality of its operation and maintenance systems.
Read moreColombia's Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development and Ministry of Mines and Energy signed a Memorandum of Understanding on June 17 with Iceland's Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate, establishing a bilateral framework for cooperation in geothermal energy development.
Read moreSeven of Colombia's major energy sector industry associations – Andesco, Acolgen, Andeg, Asocodis, SER Colombia, Naturgas, and ACP – issued a joint public warning on June 18 against President Gustavo Petro's announcement that he intends to liquidate Air-e, the electricity distributor serving Atlántico, Magdalena, and La Guajira after 21 months of government intervention.
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Yesterday’s presidential voting had a declared winner but the results are not definitive and the loser is contesting the result.
Read moreColombia has begun the largest distribution of individual solar solutions in the ministry's history, with the first 1,003 photovoltaic units handed over in Uribe, Meta on June 14 -- the opening act of a national program that will deploy more than 30,000 systems across non-interconnected zones and bring electricity for the first time to roughly 120,000 Colombians.
Read moreThe Colombian Institute of Petroleum and Energy Transition (ICPET), Ecopetrol's research arm, has launched an expanded operating model centered on decarbonization, circular economy applications, and nature-based solutions, deepening the institute's pivot toward energy transition technologies.
Read moreColombia's Ministry of Mines and Energy has issued Resolution 40267 of 2026, establishing the supply management framework to govern natural gas distribution during the scheduled maintenance of the SPEC regasification terminal in Cartagena, set for July 30 to August 3.
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