Colombia Genera: From Diagnosis to Solutions for the Mining-Energy Sector
The meeting will address infrastructure for importing gas and ensuring supply. Photo: ANDI
TL;DR
- Colombia Genera, organized by ANDI, will be held in Cartagena on March 18-19.
- The event aims to find solutions for the critical challenges in Colombia's mining-energy sector, including declining gas reserves and reduced foreign investment.
- Discussions will focus on reconstructing certainty and conditions to guarantee investment, supply, and energy competitiveness.
- The agenda includes panels with energy and gas guilds, CREG, academics, congress members, and former ministers.
- A key novelty is an encounter with four presidential candidates, focused on collective solution-building rather than debate.
- Colombia has lost energy sovereignty in gas and must now consider importing it, necessitating discussions on transport infrastructure and competitive import strategies.
- Around 25% of industrial gas demand is migrating to other fuels, including GNL and coal, amidst the energy transition discourse.
- The event will also address the strategic role of copper, the future of gas, regional implications of coal, and water resource governance.
- International and national experts, including the Minister of Mines and Energy, Ecopetrol's president, and leaders from mining and energy companies, will participate.
- Specific regional issues, such as the decline in coal production in Cesar and diversifying La Guajira's economy, will also be discussed.