Thanks to the mild phenomenon of ‘La Nina’ that was presented in the last month, and that will tie with the winter season, which runs until the beginning or middle of next June, the country’s reservoirs will have enough water to guarantee the generation of electricity.
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Records of XM, operator of the National Interconnected System (SIN), and administrator of the Wholesale Energy Market (MEM), indicate that, as of March 16, the average water contributions of the dams of the hydroelectric park is 155.36%, index that has not been presented for nine years, precisely when the country suffered the climatic event.
By areas of the country, reservoirs in the region Those who contribute the most are those from the center of the country with 204.91%, followed in order by the Caribbean with 199.35%, Valle with 194.34%, Antioquia with 134.44% and Oriente with 117.29%.
For XM technicians, this phenomenon will help the country’s reservoirs to raise their level quickly, and these days it is exceeding 65% (average), after the first weeks of the year that were characterized by a moderate summer which led to the decrease in volume in these water bodies.
By energy source, at the end of February of this year, the hydroelectric plants with reservoirs were the largest contributors with 86.24%, equivalent to an average 138.40 gigawatt hours per day (GWh/d) (increasing 2.01% compared to the previous month), while run-of-the-river plants contributed 11.14 % equivalent to 17.87 GWh-day average with a decrease of 4.78% compared to the previous month.
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Likewise, and in accordance with the recent XM reportthe energy source with the greatest contribution was hydraulic generation with 97.38%, equivalent to 156.28 GWh-day average (increasing 1.19% compared to the previous month).
It should be remembered that the electricity demand in February 2022 it increased by 3.72% compared to the same month in 2021, in which demand had decreased by 2.03%.
Likewise, that the Central region was the region of the country with the highest growth in demand for electricity with 5.38%, followed by the East with 5.27%, the Caribbean with 3.81%, Antioquia with 3.76%, Guaviare with 3.37%, Valle with 0.72%, Chocó with 0.56% and THC (Tolima, Huila, Caquetá) with 0.1%.
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ALFONSO LOPEZ
