Factura de gas del mes febrero de Grupo Vanti a un hogar de Bogotá de estrato 4. El valor del m3 de gas pasó de $2.480 en Enero de 2025 a $3.371 en Febrero del mismo año. Un incremento del 35.8% que confirma lo anunciado por las empresas distribuidoras hace un par de semanas.

The energy transition is proving to be more difficult, costly, and complicated than expected. It is time to rethink priorities, polices and investments in light of the complicated realities. My new article w/ Peter Orszag & Atul Arya in Foreign Affairs. foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/red…

More than three billion people in the world do not have access to modern energy sources, such as electricity, for cooking. Instead they have to rely on solid fuels, such as crop waste, wood, and coal, that cause indoor air pollution. This pollution kills millions of people every

1️⃣: Jaime Arenas Plata, director del Clúster de Energía Sostenible Cámara Medellín. 2️⃣: Alex Lantsberg, Research & Advocacy Director San Francisco. 3️⃣: Alberto Mejía Reyes, Vicepresidente Generación Energía EPM estamos ahí 4️⃣: Miguel Lotero Robledo, ex Viceministro de Energía.

Gas, not net zero, has driven up UK power bills on.ft.com/4ixzDx5

Conclusiones clave de #CERAWeek2025. Discusión de Javier Blas y Ben Geman en el Center on Global Energy Policy: precios del petróleo a la baja, agenda energética "drill baby drill" de Trump, tensiones geopolíticas y debates sobre transición energética. 🔗 energypolicy.columbia.edu/at-ceraweek-mi…

BREAKING: Glencore announces production cuts with immediate effect due to "unsustainable prices for seaborne thermal coal" (its Cerrejon mine in Colombia is cutting 5-10 million metric tonnes of annual output)

CHART OF THE DAY: The Rehden gas storage, the largest in Germany, has emerged from winter virtually empty. Once-routine process, refilling it this spring and summer will be an expensive and difficult task. My @Opinion column on the European gas market: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

The Spanish grid operator (Red Electrica) said that additional gas-fired power plants "are currently being included to reduce the impact that an abrupt output change may have over voltages." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

MUST READ: The speech by the new Canadian energy minister Tim Hodgson yesterday in Calgary, signalling a very refreshingly pragmatic approach to the energy transition (wish some EU/UK leaders would read it; that’s you Ed). #EnergyTransition canada.ca/en/natural-res…

Pipol, pa’ alcanzar metas toca hacer caminos que nos faciliten la vida. Y aunque hay muchos caminos, no siempre somos conscientes de que están ahí: como las torres y redes por donde viaja la energía. Pero, ¿qué tiene que ver una cosa con la otra? Corre hilo 🧵

MAP OF THE DAY: An update on commodity dependence from annual UN Trade and Development. (Measured as any country that makes >60% of its merchandise export earnings from commodities) Across developing countries, 2/3 of them (95 out of 143) remain commodity dependent. unctad.org/news/commodity…

Oil spills from tankers have fallen to less than one-thirtieth of the levels seen in the 1970s— We’ve all seen the dramatic images of vast parts of the ocean caked in oil; birds and other wildlife stuck in the thick, dark liquid. These spills are both environmentally damaging

Manufacturing dominance & energy dominance are two sides of the same coin. That’s the real key to an industrial revival.

Colombia perdió la autosuficiencia de gas en diciembre de 2024. Por primera vez, no puede producir todo el gas que consumen hogares y empresas. Las importaciones han subido los costos del servicio entre 5% y 36% según la región. Va 🧵 con las 3 razones principales de la crisis.

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La seguridad energética requiere liderazgo técnico y dedicación en el Congreso. Juan Espinal es una voz abanderada de esta causa, con enfoque en la confiabilidad, nueva infraestructura estratégica, la sostenibilidad financiera y las reglas estables para la inversión.