Colombia's Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development swore in its new leadership team on August 13, including Sergio Arturo Piñeros Botero as director of the Agencia Nacional de Licencias Ambientales (ANLA), the agency responsible for environmental licensing of major electricity infrastructure, from transmission lines to solar and wind farm development.
Read moreErco Energía announced the close of a US$129 million equity Series C round, funds the company said will strengthen its capacity to develop and build energy projects across Colombia.
Read moreAfinia called on authorities in Calamar, Bolívar, to guarantee the safety and mobility of its technical crews after several teams faced detentions and restrictions that have hampered maintenance and modernization work on the municipality's electrical infrastructure.
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XM’s June report provides yet more graphic evidence that despite the rhetoric and ex-President Gustavo Petro’s visceral hatred of the thermogenerating industry, the matrix did indeed shift to protect the reservoirs. We also look at demand growth over the past four years.
Read moreConstruction is progressing on the APBAQ I solar farm in the Juan Mina district, one of Barranquilla's principal energy transition projects, aimed at generating clean power to support the city's public lighting system.
Read moreThe Ministry of Mines and Energy issued Circular 40034, requiring every ministry, decentralized entity, and other national-level government body to design and implement an Action Plan for energy savings and efficient use within 15 business days.
Read moreAir-e's August electricity rate rose to CoP$890.26/kWh, still below the national average of CoP$957.27/kWh among Colombia's main commercializers.
Read moreResidents of several Riohacha neighborhoods marched on Air-e's office on the Circunvalar avenue the night of August 4, blocking the road to Maicao and throwing stones at the building's façade, with some setting fires nearby.
Read moreThe previous government announced Colombia's most recent Reliability Charge auction, held May 22nd as a success – 15 new generation projects plus an existing plant's expansion, an estimated CoP$16T in investment, and 4,069.7 MW of new capacity assigned to meet demand for December 2029-November 2030. But …
Read moreColombia's El Niño phenomenon is expected to intensify in October and November, prompting think tanks and analysts to call for early-warning mechanisms to avoid any resort to energy rationing.
Read moreThe Ministry of Mines and Energy provided a full update on electricity restoration following the August 10 earthquake and its aftershocks, which knocked out power to more than 1.5 million users – concentrated in Chocó, Valle del Cauca, Risaralda, Caldas, Quindío, Cauca, and Nariño – and disconnected roughly 1,700 MW of demand, equivalent to 18% of national consumption at the time.
Read moreAir-e's intervening agent, Jaime Mesa Buitrago, detailed new tiered electricity tariffs at a Consejo Nacional de Operación de Gas (CNO Gas) meeting in Barranquilla led by then Minister Edwin Palma, under which consumers who reduce usage can earn discounts of up to 40%, while those exceeding set thresholds will pay progressively more.
Read moreColombia's electricity sector needs CoP$10-13T in annual generation investment to close firm-energy deficits, with grid infrastructure requiring a similar sum to keep pace with demand growth, figures that could rise further if Colombia pursues broader economy-wide electrification and its 2050 emissions targets, according to Raúl Lancheros, Acolgen's director of sectoral affairs and regulation.
Read moreColombia's National Council for Economic and Social Policy (CONPES) approved the country's first National Hydrogen Policy document, with then-MinEnergia Edwin Palma casting a favorable vote in the non-in-person session, establishing an intersectoral roadmap to develop hydrogen as a strategic sector through 2031.
Read moreColombia's electric vehicle boom has shifted the industry's central challenge from selling cars to building the network that keeps them moving.
Read moreThe Colombian Geothermal Association (AGEOCOL) will hold the 8th National Geothermal Meeting (RENAG 2026) October 27-30 at the SENA Industry and Services Center in Villavicencio, Meta, organized alongside SENA and with support from Germany's GIZ.
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