Colombia's Agencia Nacional de Licencias Ambientales (ANLA) granted environmental approval for the transmission interconnection linking the Ariguaní photovoltaic park (200 MWac) to the La Loma 500kV substation, spanning the municipalities of El Paso and Chiriguaná in Cesar.
Read moreThe Colectora transmission project, critical to connecting La Guajira's wind generation to the national grid, faces another delay after the Ministry of Interior certified 18 additional communities requiring prior consultation.
Read moreBogotá Mayor Carlos Fernando Galán raised an alert about the capital's electricity supply amid El Niño, warning the city could face difficulty meeting rising consumption if infrastructure isn't upgraded soon.
Read moreFormer 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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XM's wholesale market manager Jaime Alejandro Zapata told Andeg's 13th Energy Forum in Barranquilla that UPME projects Sistema Interconectado Nacional demand growing roughly 10% between 2026 and 2030, pressuring both system supply and the transmission network.
Read moreColombia's August 10th magnitude-7.4 earthquake knocked out roughly 18% of national electricity demand, with the heaviest impact concentrated in Chocó, Valle del Cauca, Quindío, Caldas, and Risaralda, according to preliminary information from MinEnergia María Nohemí Arboleda and system operator XM.
Read moreThe Ministry of Mines and Energy ordered every network operator in the country to mandatorily report information on connection points for generation, cogeneration, self-generation, distributed generation, and energy community projects currently in process, pending approval, awaiting energization, or rejected over the past twelve months,
Read moreColombia's two most important La Guajira clean energy infrastructure announcements of the transition period arrived together on July 24: the Colectora 500 kV transmission line -- the dedicated highway for Guajira wind energy -- reaching 90% overall construction completion, and a draft regulatory resolution designed to prevent the wind projects that will connect to it from being cancelled due to the planning mismatches that have dogged Colombia's renewable buildout.
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