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 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.
Read moreColombia'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 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.
Read moreYesterday’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 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.
Read moreColombia's electricity generation buildout has fallen catastrophically behind schedule just as demand is hitting historic peaks, according to a detailed analysis by Valora Analitik drawing on data from grid operator XM, an ISA subsidiary.
Read moreFitch Ratings has warned that Colombia's electricity system will face heightened reliability pressure in the second half of 2026, with tightening supply-demand margins raising the risk of rationing if El Niño conditions materialize as projected.
Read moreThe governors of Córdoba, Atlántico, and Sucre signed the Plan Caribe Energético 2026-2030 on June 13, a regional energy roadmap developed through the Caribbean Regional Administrative Planning Body (RAP Caribe) in coordination with industry associations, energy companies, and technical experts.
Read moreA diplomatic and commercial spat between Colombia and Ecuador spilled into the energy arena in late May, when President Gustavo Petro used his X account to signal that Colombia would be willing to resume electricity exports to its southern neighbor -- conditionally.
Read morePresident Gustavo Petro's flagship transoceanic railway project has seen its estimated cost nearly double from the CoP$54.6T figure cited by Transport Minister María Fernanda Rojas at a CAF forum last August, reaching CoP$92T according to prefeasibility studies obtained exclusively by Valora Analitik through a freedom-of-information request to the Infrastructure Planning Unit (UPIT).
Read moreEnergy Minister Edwin Palma traveled to Puerto Carreño on June 15 to announce a package of electricity investments for Vichada totaling CoP$89.9B, headlining a proposed bilateral power interconnection with Venezuela and a new 5-MWp solar plant for the departmental capital.
Read moreDeutsche Bank and Corficolombiana both published assessments on June 12 framing the same basic question ahead of Colombia's June 21 presidential runoff: what comes after the vote, and how durable will any initial market optimism prove to be?
Read moreThe Ministry of Mines and Energy announced on June 12 the creation of a Special Committee for the coordination and monitoring of El Niño response measures across the energy and mining sector, formalizing an institutional structure to manage the climatic risk the government has been tracking through 36 prior sessions of its CACSSE energy security committee.
Read moreThe May 22 reliability charge auction (OEF) awarded firm energy obligations to 15 new projects totaling 4,069 MW of capacity and 143 GWh per day, enough for the government to declare success, but not enough for industry bodies to agree with it.
Read moreFormer Minister of Mines and Energy Amylkar Acosta published a four-point demand-management plan on June 8, arguing that Colombia is already operating under conditions of "maximum hydrological and energy stress" even before El Niño has fully hit and that voluntary government appeals to save electricity are insufficient to manage what is coming.
Read moreColombia's residential electricity prices moved against the broader trend in May 2026: DANE data show a month-on-month variation of -1.93% for the electricity category, even as headline inflation climbed to 5.84%.
Read morePresident Gustavo Petro announced on June 13 via X that he had decided to liquidate Air-e, the electricity distribution company serving Atlántico, Magdalena, and La Guajira, after nearly 21 months of government intervention by the Superintendency of Public Services failed to stabilize the company.
Read moreAn ANIF report cited by Valora Analitik on May 22 puts hard historical numbers behind what Colombia's electricity sector is bracing for: every significant El Niño event of the past two decades has produced sharp spikes in residential electricity bills, driven by the system's structural dependence on hydroelectric generation (around 62% of effective installed capacity) and the much higher cost of the thermal backup that fills the gap when reservoirs run low.
Read moreAn El Tiempo investigation by Laura Lesmes Díaz offers the most comprehensive reconstruction to date of how Air-e arrived at its current crisis -- and makes a pointed argument that the distributor's collapse is not simply a legacy of private mismanagement but was significantly accelerated by the state's own handling of the intervention.
Read moreTwo opinion columns published in El Heraldo days apart arrive at the same place from opposite directions -- and together map the central contradiction of Colombia's Caribbean energy situation with unusual clarity.
Read moreWith climate models now placing the probability of a strong or very strong El Niño closing out 2026 at 96%, Colombia's association of capital cities, Asocapitales, has launched a coordinated national preparedness initiative that brings together the national disaster risk management agency (UNGRD), IDEAM, the Colombian Red Cross, and several ministries.
Read moreJuan Ricardo Ortega, CEO of Grupo Energía Bogotá (GEB), gave one of the most candid public assessments to date of Colombia's electricity and gas supply outlook in an interview covering El Niño preparedness, gas pricing dysfunction, reservoir management, the state of GEB's transmission projects, and the political environment surrounding the sector.
Read moreThe municipality of Galapa, in Atlántico department, has been subject to rolling power cuts for several weeks caused by overloading of the circuit serving the town, triggering community protests and blockades on the Cordialidad highway.
Read moreThe Región Administrativa y de Planificación del Caribe (RAP Caribe) used its third Caribbean Energy Roundtable held in Barranquilla, to consolidate five months of technical work into a 49-measure action plan aimed squarely at the next national government.
Read moreColombia's Inspector General used a June 1 Asocapitales meeting on El Niño preparedness to deliver a pointed institutional message: the approaching climatic phenomenon cannot be managed as a water supply problem alone.
Read moreColombia's Comptroller General has issued a formal preventive fiscal control warning against the Superintendencia de Servicios Públicos Domiciliarios (Superservicios), its Fondo Empresarial, and the intervened Caribbean distributor Air-e, producing what is arguably the most damning institutional indictment of the intervention since it began in September 2024.
Read moreWith the June 21 presidential runoff looming, Colombia's energy sector is watching the electoral cycle with unusual intensity. Not because either candidate's platform is unclear, but because analysts say the first hundred days of the new administration will send market signals that reverberate for years.
Read moreThe Air-e crisis has crossed into international arbitration. On April 27, 2026, Termocandelaria -- parent company of two of Colombia's largest thermoelectric plants, Termocandelaria and Termobarranquilla -- filed a claim against the Colombian state before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the World Bank's investment arbitration body.
Read moreColombia's Ministry of Environment issued a circular to all autonomous regional corporations, urban environmental authorities, and local governments on May 28, setting out ten operational directives for managing the El Niño phenomenon expected to consolidate in the second half of 2026 and potentially extend into early 2027.
Read moreWhen the Superintendencia de Servicios Públicos intervened Air-e in September 2024, the Caribbean distributor's debt stood at approximately CoP$530B. By April 30, 2026 -- twenty months and five administrators later -- it had reached CoP$2.3T, an increase of more than 350%.
Read moreNencol 5, the 2,240 MWp gas-fired thermal plant awarded a firm energy obligation in the May 22 reliability charge auction, is nominally the most consequential single result of that process -- representing 55% of the 4,069.7 MWp of new capacity assigned and 4.5% of all firm energy committed. However, El Tiempo's investigation into the project and the man behind it raises serious doubts about whether any of that will materialize.
Read moreThe Consejo Gremial Nacional issued an urgent public appeal on May 29 to the government, the Ministry of Mines and Energy, and CREG to act immediately on what it described as a real and imminent risk of both electricity and gas supply failure. Industry sources speaking anonymously to Portafolio were starker still: "we need a miracle to save ourselves from the blackout."
Read moreWith El Niño rapidly approaching, planners are naturally concerned with the expected drop off in hydrogeneration and what they can use to replace it. Traditionally, it would be thermogeneration but, if the “Illuminati” still run the show after August 7th, they will want to use solar. We update our solar-related charts with five full months of 2026 in the books.
Read moreSimón Gaviria, writing in El Heraldo, argues that Colombia's energy debate is stuck in the wrong century.
Read moreThe Petro administration issued Decree 0526 on May 21, amending Decree 1073 of 2015 and fundamentally broadening the mandate of the Fondo de Energía Social (FOES) -- the fund that has historically financed electricity bill discounts for stratum 1 and 2 households.
Read moreThe expected candidates made it through to the second round and official government candidate Iván Cepeda got the approximately 40% of the vote that the polls said he would. But Abelardo de la Espriella surprised by getting over 43% and coming first.
Read moreThe Petro administration declared the May 22 reliability charge auction a resounding success, claiming it exceeded projected demand by 8%. Industry analysts, the power generators industry association Andeg, and the auction's most controversial winner all spent the following week telling a different story.
Read moreAlejandro Castañeda, president of the power generators industry association Andeg, declared on May 27 that Colombia faces a high probability of a blackout in March and April of next year, the product of three simultaneous failures: an undersized reliability charge auction, the financial collapse of Caribbean distributor Air-e, and the approaching El Niño phenomenon.
Read moreColombia's Ministry of Mines and Energy has presented its institutional and regulatory roadmap for the potential incorporation of nuclear energy into the national power mix, doing so before the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on May 25.
Read moreThe economic price tag on a potential rationing scenario is the most important thing El País's May 25 expert survey adds to a story we have already well documented elsewhere, including today.
Read moreAndesco, Colombia's public utilities industry body, issued its starkest public warning to date on May 21, laying out five interconnected risk factors it says could drive the country into electricity rationing -- and giving the government a three-to-four month window to act before the dry season becomes unmanageable.
Read moreColombia faces an imminent risk of electricity rationing and sharp tariff increases as El Niño bears down on a power system weakened by four years of poor decisions.
Read moreColombia enters its May 31 presidential first round with four polling firms pointing in the same general direction – Iván Cepeda first, Abelardo de la Espriella second, Paloma Valencia third – but diverging so sharply on margins that they imply fundamentally different results.
Read moreThe CREG's 2029-2030 firm energy obligation auction – the result that secured 4,069 MW and CoP$16T in investment – has a pronounced regional dimension that received little attention in national coverage.
Read morePresident Gustavo Petro escalated Colombia's official response to the approaching El Niño on May 22, announcing a package of energy and food security measures via his X account and warning that constitutional tools remain on the table if normal administrative channels prove too slow.
Read moreColombia's electricity system regulator CREG closed its latest expansion auction on May 22--23, securing 4,069.7 MW of firm energy capacity and 15 new generation projects for the December 2029--November 2030 obligation period, with total committed investment exceeding CoP$16T.
Read moreEnergy minister Edwin Palma used an appearance at a major forum on labor conditions in the mining and energy sector to issue his sharpest public warning yet about El Niño's impact on Colombia, while simultaneously reframing the government's energy transition agenda as the only credible response to the country's deepening climate and supply vulnerability.
Read moreThree industry voices converged in the third week of May to paint a consistent and sobering picture of Colombia's energy exposure as El Niño approaches: the sector is entering the dry season with a negative firm-energy balance, insufficient gas, a crippled Caribbean distributor, and a new generation pipeline that has chronically underdelivered.
Read moreColombia 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 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.
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.
Read moreThe 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 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 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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 moreWith El Niño expected in Colombia's second half of 2026, the Caribbean region has become the country's principal hope for securing energy supply – representing 54% of national renewable generation projects and contributing more than 50% of the 4,441 MW of solar capacity assigned under the reliability charge mechanism for 2027–2028.
Read moreColombia's energy regulator CREG published draft Resolution 701 122 of 2026 for public comment on April 10, proposing a significant upgrade to the Sistema Centralizado de Información de Convocatorias Públicas (SICEP), the platform through which approximately half of all energy purchased in Colombia is contracted via public tender.
Read moreColombia's electric vehicle market grew 171.3% in the first quarter of 2026, with more than 9,000 new registrations between January and March, according to figures from the ANDI and Fenalco. Against that backdrop, the energy regulator CREG convened a multi-ministry coordination roundtable to begin developing a coherent regulatory and technical roadmap for electric mobility's integration into the national energy system.
Read moreColombia's Minister of Mines and Energy, Edwin Palma, used a keynote appearance at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit in New York on April 21 to frame the reactivation of energy integration with Venezuela as a cornerstone of Colombia's regional clean energy strategy, arguing that the current geopolitical moment offers a historic opening for cross-border electricity interconnection across Latin America.
Read moreColombia's Superintendency of Public Services (Superservicios) used the National Congress on Energy Transition, held at Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, to deliver one of its sharpest assessments yet of the Caribbean region's chronic electricity crisis – arguing that the problem is structural and cannot be solved by changing operators or launching yet another financial rescue plan. We provide a long commentary on his statements.
Read moreMinister of Mines and Energy Edwin Palma used the 9th SER Colombia Renewables Fair in Barranquilla on April 23 to present a ten-measure package he said has already produced a 2,000% increase in the incorporation of clean energy into Colombia's electricity system — a headline figure the ministry did not break down against a specific baseline in the press release.
Read moreSanta Marta hosted the First International Conference for the Transition Beyond Fossil Fuels from April 24–29, 2026, co-organized by Colombia and the Netherlands as a high-level platform for governments, academics, civil society, and industry representatives to map concrete pathways away from oil, gas, and coal.
Read moreCREG expert commissioner Fanny Guerrero used her address at the first National Congress on Just Energy Transition and Climate Change Adaptation — organized by Air-e and Universidad del Norte — to argue that the Caribbean region's energy endowment positions it to become a motor of economic and social development, provided the right regulatory and infrastructure conditions are put in place.
Read moreThe 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 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 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.
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