Colombia's clean power share slightly down as demand recovers

Warmer Bogotá. Image source: Fernando Garcia on Flicker.

November 16 (Renewables Now) - Colombia generated 86.12% of its power with clean and renewable energy sources in October, grid operator XM Compania de Expertos en Mercados has said.

The clean share in Colombia's total power prodution was 86.70% in September.

Clean energy plants, that is non-conventional renewables and large hydropower plants (HPPs) lumped together, generated 183.96 GWh per day on average in October, down by 1.83% month-on-month. Production from plants running on non-renewable sources rose by 3.13% month-on-month to an average of 29.64 GWh/day.

More on Colombia’s renewables in October in the table below:

Technology:	Daily average production (in GWh/day)	month-on-month change:	Share in October:
Bagasse biomass	2.24	-7.51%	1.22%
Biogas	0.01	40.70%	0.01%
HPP with reservoir	156.62	-2.95%	85.14%
Wind	0.09	-33.71%	0.05%
Run-of-river hydro	24.00	6.58%	13.05%
Solar PV	1.01	7.58%	0.55%

The nation’s demand for electricity rose by 6.42% year-on-year to 6,490.1 GWh in October. When looking at the demand from before the pandemic, the increase is 7.17% compared to October 2019, XM said.

In October 2021, demand by residential and small business consumers rose by 2.99% year-on-year. At the same time, industrial and other consumers in the non-regulated market increased their demand by 13.84% on the year.

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