Colombia is one of the OECD countries that produces the most renewable energy

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) updated the renewable energy production figures. Among the 10 countries that produce the most this type of energy is Colombiawhich would also be the second largest producer of Latin Americaaccording to the scale presented.

Statistics are compiled to assess the extent to which these renewable energies are of primary use to nations. In this sense, the OECD estimates that nearly 30% of what is generated is used directly in daily life.

The country that tops this list is Iceland with 89%, followed by Costa Rica with 52%, Norway third with 51%, Sweden fourth with 46% and Latvia fifth with 43%. Colombia it is ninth with 29%, surpassing the major powers, to name a few: the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States.

“Renewable energy is defined as the contribution of renewable energy to the total primary energy supply (ATEP). Renewable energy includes the primary energy equivalent of hydroelectric (excluding pumped storage), geothermal, solar, wind, tidal and wave energy sources. Also included are energies from solid biofuels, biogasoline, biodiesel, other liquid biofuels, biogas and the renewable fraction of municipal waste.

The figures are mainly reached in Colombia by hydroelectric power stations, followed by solar and wind power plants. These would be the ones that would be promoted with the so-called energy transition, which in addition to being one of the Sustainable Development Goalsis one of the flags of the government of Gustavo Petro.

There energetic transition This is one of the axes of transformation of the country, as recorded in the national development plan. Precisely the fourth point speaks of renewable energies “productive transformation, internationalization and climate action”.

This axis is contained in article 3, and although it aims for more and more activities to be carried out using green energies, it does not detail how this implementation would take place. What stands out is the expectation that these would have in the national economy:

“Productive transformation, internationalization and climate action. It seeks the diversification of productive activities that take advantage of natural capital and deepen the use of clean energy, that are intensive in knowledge and innovation, that respect and guarantee human rights, and that contribute to building resilience in the face of to climatic shocks. . Thus, productivity should promote the country’s sustainable development and competitiveness, increase wealth while being inclusive, gradually emerge from dependence on extractive activities and give way to a reindustrialized economy with new sectors supported by territorial potential in harmony with nature “.

According to the trade unions in the energy sector, certain articles would have negative effects, mainly on the issue of monetization. In interview with Briefcasethe president of the Renewable Energies Association (SER Colombia), Alexander Luciusconsiders that the articles do not help much in the transition process:

“Despite the fact that in the policies that this government has proposed for accelerating renewable energy in the National Development Plan, there are things that don’t fit very well with those ideas.”

The guilds consider that JPN This goes against the process of accelerating the transition, mainly because the current arrangement does not encourage business investment, in addition to the fact that production from other mechanisms remains cheaper.