Energy, Regulation & Policy Oct 31, 2025 7:43 PM
Colombia’s Caribbean coast faces a troubling paradox: thousands of families have access to electricity, yet most do not pay for it. In so-called “electrically illegal” neighborhoods, informal settlements recognized by law since 2003 for their precarious conditions, the regional utility Afinia collects only about 5% of their monthly billing, translating into annual losses exceeding CoP$300B.
