The Leap to Clean Energy Requires an Intermediate Mechanism

The transition to clean energy cannot be made without an intermediate mechanism that helps meet the country’s needs.

The Attorney General of the Nation, Margarita Cabello Blanco, emphasized that the National Government’s decision to increase gas imports could bring additional costs to citizens.

The head of the Public Ministry highlighted that “This situation must be avoided, and we must insist that the environmental license of the Komodo-1 be increased quickly and well, and solve the problems in Uchuva.”

The officer called on the National Government to “pronounce quickly and hastily, in order to increase audits and reserves without obstacles, in order to avoid the problems that are happening in the country.”

He pointed out that the management entity agrees with the change towards clean energy, but “this leap cannot be made without an intermediate mechanism that helps to get out of this situation and meet the needs of the population.”

Cabello Blanco claimed that the gas shortage was imminent, “It is no longer a warning, but a reality”, after Epetrol’s announcement of the suspension of contracting for supply in vehicles, in order to ensure that it is available to the generators.

Warning from the Attorney General’s Office for Electricity Production and Ecopetrol Announcement

The Public Ministry, through the representative of Environmental, Mining, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, informed the Mining and Energy Planning Unit (UPME), the Energy and Gas Regulatory Commission (CREG) and the Ministry of Energy about the general need to adopt related measures to produce electrical energy, as a result of the aggregate reserve levels of the National Interconnected System.

In the same letter, in response to Ecopetrol’s announcement regarding the need to prioritize natural gas supply for thermal generation plants, the requested control entity “strategies to guarantee gas supply to thermal plants in the short, medium and long term, so to speak Ensure compliance with Sound Energy Obligations reserved and required in cases of low hydrology.”

In the same way, he asked for information about “the crises that are currently arising for the operation of the thermal park and hydroelectric plants, and the mechanisms that are active to overcome them; In addition, there are the risks that are expected to arise for the correct operation of the thermal park and the hydroelectric plants, the likelihood of occurrence and the mitigation mechanisms.

he asked Minminas, who until when it is considered that Ecopetrol will see the need to limit supply natural gas to the companies that signed contracts of conditional strength and how much the gas imbalance between supply and demand is induces the restriction on the sale of natural gas for vehicles.