The clean share in Colombia’s total power production fell to below 80% in May as hydro inflows declined significantly during the first two weeks of the month before recovering in the second half, national grid operator XM Compania de Expertos en Mercados has said.
The nation’s renewables share, which includes both large-scale hydro and the so-called non-conventional renewables, was 78.31% in May, down from 89.5% in April. Together, the clean power plants generated 169.48 GWh per day on average in the 31-day month, representing a drop of 10.32% from the daily averages in April, XM’s latest figures show.
Average daily power production from non-renewable sources, mainly coal and gas, rose by 110.95% month-on-month to meet the domestic demand, while electricity imports from Ecuador surged by 422.5% over the same period, XM said.
Details on clean power production follow in the table below:
| Source: | Daily average production in May (in GWh/day): | month-on-month change: | Share in May: |
| Bagasse biomass | 0.895 | -52.92% | 0.53% |
| Biogas | 0.025 | 60.68% | 0.01% |
| HPPs with reservoir | 145.431 | -9.58% | 85.81% |
| Wind | 0.582 | -4.75% | 0.34% |
| Run-of-river hydro | 20.244 | -13.00% | 11.95% |
| Solar PV | 2.302 | -2.44% | 1.36% |
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