Colombia's clean power share rises to 87.7% in Aug

Author: Matt Berlin. License: Creative Commons, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic

Clean and renewable sources were behind 87.68% of Colombia’s power production in August, national grid operator XM Compania de Expertos en Mercados said.

In July, electricity production from Colombia’s large hydro power plants (HPPs) and non-conventional renewables added up to a 85.89% share.

According to XM, hydro inflows in August were higher than the historical average for the seventh month in a row, which benefited Colombia’s HPP reservoirs.

Clean power plants generated 186.99 GWh of electricity per day on average in August, up by 2.84% month-on-month. Power production from non-renewable sources dropped by 12.08% month-on-month to 26.27 GWh/day on average.

Colombia’s electricity system as a whole generated 6,611.12 GWh during August. This translated into an average of 213.26 GWh/day, up by 0.73% compared to July.

Details on clean power production in August are presented in the table below:

Technology:	Daily average in August (in GWh/day)	month-on-month change:	Share in August:
Bagasse biomass	2.25	7.35%	1.20%
Biogas	0.02	161.78%	0.01%
HPPs with reservoir	160.45	4.70%	85.81%
Wind	0.29	4.83%	0.15%
Run-of-river hydro	22.47	-9.76%	12.02%
Solar PV	1.51	16.59%	0.81%