Colombia's clean power share down to 85.6% in July

El Carmelo solar farm, Candelaria municipality, Colombia. Image by Celsia (www.celsia.com)

Colombia produced 85.62% of its electricity from clean and renewable energy sources in July, a slight reduction from the clean power generation share of 86.53% recorded a month earlier.

The total production from large hydropower plants (HPPs) with reservoirs and the so-called non-conventional renewables reached 175.85 GWh on average per day, up 1.41% from June, SIN grid operator XM Compania de Expertos en Mercados said in a statement.

Power production from fossil fuels increased as well, averaging 29.53 GWh per day in July, up by 9.44% month-on-month.

More details follow in the table below:

Source:	Daily average production (in GWh/day)	month-on-month change:	Share in July:
Bagasse	2.24	5.40%	1.28%
Biogas	0.01	-7.75%	0.01%
HPPs with reservoir	149.83	0.93%	85.20%
Wind	0.20	-1.41%	0.11%
Run-of-river hydro	22.75	4.00%	12.24%
Solar PV	0.82	10.12%	0.46%