Acosta says Colombia’s transmission delays have quietly cost users trillions of pesos

Regulation & Policy, Transmission    Aug 27, 2026 10:34 PM

Former Minister Amylkar Acosta argues in this El Heraldo column that delays in building transmission lines and substations have stopped being a purely technical problem and become a direct cost passed to consumers – when the grid can't move power efficiently, the system falls back on more expensive generation, and that markup flows straight into household and business tariffs.

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