Future Energy Summit (FES) Colombia enters its final stage just seven days before it takes place. Next Thursday, October 1st, the JW Marriott Hotel in Bogotá will host representatives from some of the most important companies in the national and international energy market.
The meeting will take place just three days after FES Peru and will bring together ISAGEN , CATL , Terpel , Sungrow , SolaX Power , JinkoSolar , GameChange Solar , ISA Energía , Promigas , PV Hardware and Atlas Renewable Energy .
Also participating will be Marsh , Nexans , Patria Investments , AFRY , Atera , Skysense , Alurack , TCL , CTG Latam , Vatia , Gotion , Yingli Solar , JA Solar and ERCO , among other companies linked to different segments of the value chain.
CEOs, expansion and reliability
The agenda will begin with “Reliability, demand and expansion: the CEOs’ vision on the energy future of Colombia” , one of the central themes of a day marked by the growth needs of the electricity system.
The utility-scale solar sector will have a dedicated space where industry leaders will discuss how to unlock the next renewable growth cycle, while “Building for growing demand: technology, development and implementation of solar in Colombia” will address the conditions needed to accelerate new developments.
The program will also include the major energy groups' commitment to a multi-energy future and a space dedicated to the new era of renewable projects with signs of investment to guarantee the country's energy security.
In addition, storage will have a prominent presence with “Storage, hybrid projects and reliability: the next big energy investment cycle in Colombia”.
This will be complemented by topics related to distributed generation and storage as a competitiveness strategy for the Colombian industry.
To close the day, government representatives will address sectoral priorities for the energy sector with a 2030 horizon , at a time when the market is closely following new definitions on expansion, contracting and reliability.
With hundreds of executives and company representatives expected in Bogotá, FES Colombia will once again be part of the main circuit of Future Energy Summit meetings and the most important event in Latin America for the renewable energy sector.
Networking opportunities will once again be a central component of the event. Companies, investors, developers, suppliers, and government officials will gather there to foster business relationships, explore investment opportunities, and secure contracts related to new energy projects.
Colombia enters a new stage of investment
The meeting will take place at a time when the Colombian market is beginning to accumulate new signs for the next expansion cycle.
The recent contracting of 995 MW of solar power and nearly 100 MW of storage capacity has once again brought the utility scale segment to the forefront and left open the discussion about the continuation of new bidding processes.
Some of the bids went uncontracted, and several companies have projects ready to compete. Attention is now focused on future calls for tenders that could improve conditions for batteries, time blocks, and developments capable of supplying energy beyond photovoltaic generation hours.
In parallel, the Reliability Charge auction awarded approximately 1.8 GW of new renewable capacity with contracts of up to 20 years, incorporating new signals for generation, backup and availability in critical periods.
The Energy and Gas Regulatory Commission (CREG) is also working on a new stage of Firm Energy Obligations allocation.
The plan includes an administered auction for 2027-2028, a reconfiguration of purchases in subsequent periods, and a possible expansion auction for 2030-2031.
In Circular 341, the CREG confirmed that it is in the planning, review and analysis phase, although it has not yet defined the volumes that will be called.
The regulator's executive director, Adriana Jiménez , also publicly stated that the entity is analyzing different mechanisms to cover the system's needs in the coming years.
The recently awarded contracts already total around 9,500 MW of nominal capacity committed. This volume includes 4,489 MW of new capacity for 2027-2028, another 4,069.7 MW of net new effective capacity for the period between December 1, 2029, and November 30, 2030, in addition to the 995 MW of solar and nearly 100 MW of battery storage contracted in the long-term auction.
The figure alone does not clear up the questions about meeting demand by 2030.
This scenario of increased consumption, new backup needs, and regulatory signals still being defined will set the context for FES Colombia , which on October 1st will bring together in Bogotá a large part of the actors called upon to execute the next energy investment cycle in the country.