Miguel Lotero Robledo

Colombia necesita volver a poner en el centro la idea básica de que lo primero es tener energía. En #WhatWatt hablamos de las soluciones que no llegarán a tiempo para la crisis y de las decisiones difíciles que tendrá que tomar el próximo gobierno. youtube.com/watch?v=baXQqq…

La seguridad energética requiere liderazgo técnico y dedicación en el Congreso. @Juan_EspinalR 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.

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.

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

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 and expensive to clean up. As the chart shows, in the 1970s, over 300,000 tonnes of oil were spilled from oil tankers in most years. By the 1980s and 1990s, this had dropped, but the annual average was still over 100,000 tonnes. These losses have fallen dramatically since the millennium. Last year, 10,000 tonnes were spilled, less than one-thirtieth of the amount lost in a typical year in the 1970s. This decline has occurred despite global oil production and trade increasing dramatically. (This Data Insight was written by @_HannahRitchie and Veronika Samborska.)

MAP OF THE DAY: An update on commodity dependence from annual @UNCTAD. (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…

@Aire_Energia le debe al mercado +COP 2 billones. La deuda sigue creciendo, incluso tras su intervención. El plan de pago propuesto: 9 años, sin garantías. El sistema no colapsaría por falta de energía, sino por falta de plata. Columna en @Portafolioco: bit.ly/4lsiwhG

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 🧵

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…

La columna en versión impresa:

¿Qué nos enseña el apagón del 28 de abril en Europa sobre la fragilidad de la transición energética mal planeada? Lo explico en esta columna publicada en @Portafolioco: “Cuando se apaga la luz: historia de una orquesta desafinada” portafolio.co/opinion/otros-…

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/…

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…

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)

Conclusiones clave de #CERAWeek2025. Discusión de @JavierBlas y @Ben_Geman en el @ColumbiaUEnergy: 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…

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

1️⃣: Jaime Arenas Plata, director del Clúster de Energía Sostenible @CamaraMedellin. 2️⃣: Alex Lantsberg, Research & Advocacy Director San Francisco. 3️⃣: Alberto Mejía Reyes, Vicepresidente Generación Energía @EPMestamosahi 4️⃣: @MLoteroRobledo, ex Viceministro de Energía.

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 year.