Colombia has crossed 24,447 registered rooftop solar and distributed generation systems, according to UPME data published through the Plan 6GW+ tracking program, with more than 15,000 of those installations coming in just the past two years.
Read moreCannabis Medical Company has commissioned Colombia's first solar farm dedicated to medicinal cannabis production, a 147-panel photovoltaic system generating 105.1 kWp at its facility in Baranoa, Atlántico.
Read moreEnergy Minister Edwin Palma has sent a formal circular to the Comisión de Regulación de Energía y Gas (CREG) acknowledging what he calls an "imminent risk" of electricity rationing across Colombia -- a significant reversal from his own public statements made just days earlier, when he told an audience in Atlántico that a blackout was not going to happen.
Read moreMateo Porras, is general manager of Julia RD, a Colombian demand response aggregator, which helps industrial and commercial users convert from passive electricity consumers into active contributors to grid stability but, in his view, Colombia still lacks the regulatory framework to do this at scale.
Read moreColombia's energy crisis -- and the Caribbean region's electricity emergency in particular -- took center stage at the Gran Vice Presidential Debate held May 5 at the Universidad Simón Bolívar's Teatro José Consuegra Higgins in Barranquilla, co-organized by Canal 1, Acento Colombia, and El Heraldo.
Read moreMinister of Mines and Energy Edwin Palma put concrete figures behind the government's La Guajira renewable energy push, disclosing that approximately CoP$360B has been directed to community energy projects in the department -- resources he described as enabling Wayúu families to access electricity, refrigeration, and connectivity for the first time.
Read moreColombia's Ministry of Mines and Energy has activated a preparedness roadmap containing 50 specific actions to protect the electricity and gas systems ahead of El Niño 2026--2027, presenting the plan during a session of the Advisory Commission on Energy Situation Monitoring (Cacsse) on May 12.
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Several articles recently have noted the coming El Niño, perhaps “Super” El Niño and the need to ensure the hydro reservoirs are at their highest possible level.
Read moreThe Ministry of Mines and Energy has issued a resolution formalizing what it calls a tripartite governance model for renewable energy and transmission projects in La Guajira -- a permanent dialogue mechanism bringing together indigenous and local communities, project developers, and the state to negotiate and construct agreements around strategic energy initiatives in the Caribbean region.
Read moreMinister of Mines and Energy Edwin Palma traveled to the Villas de San Pablo neighborhood in Barranquilla on May 14 to review progress on the Colombia Solar program at the Parques de Bolívar 2 residential complex, meeting with community leaders and beneficiary families in one of the program's first operational deployments.
Read moreThe Ministry of Mines and Energy has published a draft resolution establishing the regulatory framework for the exploration, evaluation, and exploitation of white hydrogen in Colombia, along with associated gases.
Read moreWith El Niño conditions expected in the second half of 2026, the Ministry of Mines and Energy has issued Circular 40021 of 2026, directing all entities of the executive branch to establish measurable energy-saving targets, adopt clean energy where possible, and conduct periodic compliance evaluations.
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The Windpeshi wind farm in La Guajira has become one of Colombia's most expensive renewable energy cautionary tales. Originally conceived to generate around 1,006 GWh per year from 41 turbines across the municipalities of Uribia and Maicao, the project burned through more than CoP$1T under its original owner, Enel Colombia, without producing a single kilowatt of commercial energy.
Read moreISA is convening the 11th edition of its Knowledge and Innovation Forum in Medellín over five days, gathering professionals from Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Panama alongside roughly 30 global experts.
Read moreGrupo EPM used a virtual forum on the future of Colombia's public services sector to table two headline proposals: a "National Reliability Pact 2026--2030" to fast-track energy projects capable of delivering firm or flexible power before 2027, and a "National Policy of Equity and Territorial Convergence" specifically designed to address the Caribbean region's structural electricity deficit.
Read moreColombia's Constitutional Court is reviewing Decree 150 of 2026, President Gustavo Petro's declaration of economic emergency across eight Caribbean and Pacific departments following floods that struck at the start of the year, displacing around 160,000 people across 101 municipalities in Córdoba, Sucre, Antioquia, and Chocó.
Read moreColombia's Ministry of Mines and Energy published a draft resolution for public comment on May 7 proposing changes to the policy governing capacity allocation on the National Power Grid (Sistema Interconectado Nacional or SIN) – a measure framed by Minister Edwin Palma as aimed at freeing up connection slots occupied by stalled projects so that new generation, including clean energy and storage, can move faster.
Read moreColombia's only LNG import terminal, the Cartagena regasification plant, is scheduled to go offline for five days of preventive maintenance from July 30 to August 3, 2026 – deliberately brought forward from its customary October / November slot to ensure the infrastructure is fully available during the most demanding phase of the El Niño weather phenomenon forecast for the second half of the year.
Read moreWith Colombia's FDI down 16% in 2025 to US$11.5B -- and 33% over four years -- the May 31 first-round election has intensified scrutiny of what each leading candidate would actually mean for foreign investment.
Read moreColombia's Superintendencia de Servicios Públicos Domiciliarios (Superservicios) announced on May 4 that Superintendent Felipe Durán Carrón would lead an in-person inspection and surveillance visit to Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM), covering the full range of services the multi-utility provides: water supply, sewage, energy, and gas.
Read moreGrupo Ecopetrol inaugurated on May 4 what it is calling its "energy brain" -- the Centro Autónomo de Despacho de Energía (CADE), an AI-driven intelligent energy management system developed in partnership with ISA that allows the group to select in real time the most efficient combination of self-generated power, renewables, and grid purchases from the Sistema Interconectado Nacional.
Read moreColombia's central bank is sounding a clear warning about the inflationary consequences of an El Niño event that forecasters expect to arrive in the second half of 2026, intensifying toward a peak in September and potentially setting temperature records.
Read moreColombia's foreign investment shortfall -- FDI down 16% in 2025 to US$11.5B and off 33% over four years -- is partly explained by a problem that never appears on a tax bill.
Read moreWhoever takes office on August 7 inherits an electricity sector in apparent crisis -- a gas shortage driving thermal generators toward dirtier combustion, a Caribbean coast distributor on the brink of financial collapse, an ambitious renewable project pipeline that cannot find commercial closure, and a fiscal hole that makes all of the above harder to fix.
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A country that was still debating the viability of electric vehicles just a few years ago has handed the Tesla Model Y its second consecutive monthly sales crown -- a milestone that says as much about consumer preferences as it does about energy transition.
Read moreFrench renewable energy company GreenYellow commissioned the Parque Solar Jardín, located in Valencia de Jesús, Cesar, adding solar capacity to one of the Colombian regions with the highest renewable potential.
Read moreMaría Nohemí Arboleda, general manager of XM – the ISA subsidiary that operates Colombia's electricity market and dispatch system – has given a wide-ranging interview to Valora Analitik that touches on three of the sector's most sensitive current threads: the unresolved legal dispute over a failed Siemens software contract, the growing role of solar generation, and the system's preparedness for a possible Super El Niño later in 2026.
Read moreISA, the electricity transmission company controlled by Ecopetrol, has appointed Olga Patricia Castaño as interim CEO – the second acting president to hold the role since the Consejo de Estado annulled the appointment of Jorge Carrillo earlier this year.
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Grupo EPM closed 2025 with consolidated revenues of CoP$40.6T, EBITDA of CoP$11T, and net profit of CoP$5.3T -- a 9% increase on 2024 -- despite what the company described as a year marked by regulatory pressures, climate variability, and higher operating costs.
Read moreIn an Valora Analitik interview, Terpel CEO Óscar Bravo spelled out how Colombia's largest fuel network plans to reposition itself as an integrated mobility and energy company by 2035, with electric vehicle charging at the center of that transformation.
Read moreColombia's Constitutional Court has unanimously overturned Legislative Decree 44 of January 21, 2026, the emergency measure through which the Petro government imposed a parafiscal levy on electricity generators as part of the economic and social emergency it had declared.
Read moreAfinia, the Grupo EPM subsidiary serving much of Colombia's Caribbean coast, has invested more than CoP$1.3T in electrical infrastructure across the department of Bolívar -- and has little to show for it in the south of the department, where theft, non-payment, and community hostility are erasing the benefits.
Read moreGrid operator XM has circulated an internal report, obtained by El Tiempo, laying out a detailed set of technical requirements for Colombia to navigate an anticipated strong El Niño event expected to develop toward the end of 2026 – a scenario the document warns could push the system "to operating levels that have never been seen before" and place reliable demand coverage at risk.
Read moreThree of Colombia's main electricity industry associations and the market manager have issued coordinated warnings about the structural fragility of the national grid as the probability of a strong El Niño phenomenon in the second half of 2026 rises – adding a climatic stress test to a system that analysts say is already operating with insufficient margin.
Read moreAs the first Conference for the Transition Beyond Fossil Fuels concluded its high-level segment in Santa Marta, Oxfam used the occasion to press a point that the event's corporate-heavy framing tends to obscure: that phasing out fossil fuels without recognizing community-scale energy alternatives risks replicating the same extractive power structures under a green label.
Read moreGeothermal energy – power generated from heat stored in the earth's subsurface – is emerging as a priority renewable source within the Petro administration's energy transition agenda, though Colombia remains at an early stage of development despite significant estimated potential.
Read moreThe April 24 summit between Colombia's Gustavo Petro and Venezuelan acting president Delcy Rodríguez produced more than political declarations: on April 28.
Read moreEnergy Minister Edwin Palma has moved from hinting at Air-e's liquidation to stating it openly, declaring that "Air-e, in my judgment, should be liquidated -- the operation should be taken over by a subsidiary of Gecelca."
Read moreBMW dealer and mobility services provider Autogermana has inaugurated a new electric vehicle charging station in Villa de Leyva, one of Colombia's most visited colonial heritage destinations, adding the Boyacá tourist hub to a growing national network.
Read moreWith Colombia's first-round presidential election 25 days away on May 31, the energy sector is watching the race as closely as any constituency -- and with good reason. The outcome will determine whether Colombia resumes oil and gas exploration, how the country manages the Caribbean coast electricity crisis, and whether the energy transition accelerates or stalls.
Read moreWith Colombia's presidential election six weeks away, voices from the Caribbean coast are using the transition period to press whoever wins on the region's chronic electricity problems.
Read moreFour months before leaving office, President Gustavo Petro's flagship energy transition program is delivering real benefits to individual beneficiaries but falling well short of the structural overhaul its rhetoric promised -- a gap that analysts say reflects both the limits of the initiatives themselves and Colombia's stubborn fiscal dependence on hydrocarbons.
Read moreJavier Ricardo Ruiz, general manager of Hitachi Energy Colombia, says Colombia's electricity system is under growing structural strain, combining rising demand, chronic project delays, and a dangerous over-reliance on hydropower -- a vulnerability that El Niño will sharpen into a crisis if left unaddressed.
Read moreColombia's electricity users face a two-track tariff threat in the second half of 2026: the anticipated arrival of El Niño, which will shift generation toward costlier thermal fuels, and a government-mandated surcharge designed to bail out debt-laden Caribbean distributor Air-e.
Read moreThe president of Promigás, Juan Manuel Rojas, used the opening session of the Cátedra Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo lecture series at the Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito to issue a pointed warning about Colombia's energy security ahead of a probable El Niño in the second half of 2026.
Read moreMinister of Mines and Energy Edwin Palma used an appearance at the ninth Encuentro y Feria de Renovables Latam, held at the Centro de Eventos Puerta de Oro in Barranquilla, to issue an unusually candid assessment of Colombia's energy security outlook, describing the convergence of climate risk and global geopolitical disruption as "quite a difficult cocktail."
Read moreColombia's Attorney General's Office is preparing to bring criminal charges against three senior engineers involved in the construction and oversight of the Hidroituango hydroelectric project, accusing them of causing an environmental catastrophe during the 2018 emergency that nearly destroyed the dam.
Read moreGrupo Energía Bogotá (GEB) announced on April 20 that it has begun exploratory activities toward a potential listing of American Depositary Shares (ADSs) on a U.S. stock exchange and a corresponding registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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