Given the debate that will follow XM’s warnings about possible power outages in choco, the caribbean region and bogotaThe entity went out to detail the situation that is being registered in the country.
The first thing that appeared is that Colombia has sufficient resources for power generation and its primary resources (mainly water, gas, coal and liquid fuels) to meet consumption in the country.
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Therefore, XM reiterated that in the analyzes carried out there is no evidence of energy shortage risks (energy deficit)even before the arrival of the El Niño phenomenon.
The problem is really occurring in the networks to transport electricity, because there is a depletion in the transport capacity in the Caribbean regionwhich is not related to energy shortage problems in the country.
This depletion, explains XM, implies difficulties for the transmission of energy to the end user in some areas of the Caribbean region.
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In view of the increase in recent months of unmet demand programming due to exhaustion in the regional transmission network in the Caribbean area, in June 2023 XM declared a state of emergency for some substations in that area.
Specifically, these are El Banco, La Jagua, San Juan and Guatapurí in the area of La Guajira, Cesar and Magdalena; San Jacinto, Calamar, Zambrano, El Carmen and El Plato in Bolívar; From, Mompox and Magangué in Córdoba and Sucre.
XM assures that in these populations the electric power service it is not being provided with the quality, safety and reliability defined in current regulations.
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In addition, it warns that the unmet demand that has been scheduled in the Caribbean region as a consequence of the depletion of the regional transmission network, may increase as demand for energy grows in said area.
According to XM, the structural solution to exhaustion in the regional transmission network is the timely entry of expansion projects; however, the development of these faces great challenges in the country.
Evidence of this is that of the expansion works awarded by Upme that are currently underway, 68 percent correspond to projects in the Caribbean region and delays to date range from one to four years.
