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Colombia's power sector in numbers

Ember monthly data 2016-01 → 2025-12 · generation-weighted · CC-BY-4.0

Carbon intensity · 2025-12

123gCO₂e/kWh

#14 cleanest of 80 tracked (2025)

Renewables share

87.7%

clean incl. nuclear: 87.7%

Records

Cleanest: 90 (2017-07)

Dirtiest: 408 (2016-03)

The trend, year by year

YeargCO₂e/kWhΔRenewables %Generation TWh
2025 122 -126 87.3 84.4
2024 248 +48 70.6 83.3
2023 200 +68 77 80.6
2022 132 -17 85.4 76.9
2021 149 -84 83.4 73.9
2020 233 +43 73.3 69.3
2019 190 +40 79 70.1
2018 150 +29 83.3 69
2017 121 -109 87 66.7
2016 230 72.1 65.8

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Source: "Monthly electricity data, Ember" (CC-BY-4.0). Yearly figures are generation-weighted (Σ emissions ÷ Σ generation, complete years only). Monthly statistical data — estimated, not live measurement. Cite as "Voltcast Research, voltcast.com/research/countries/co".