National Energy Plan 2006?2025
The Plan establishes a series of long-term strategies and recommendations to inform decision-makers and orientate the formulation of energy supply policies adequate to face global productivity and competitiveness conditions.
It includes an analysis of current energy needs and scenario for the evolution of the energy needs of the country and its supply alternatives as well as the possibilities for energy supply integration at regional and international levels. The document proposes the analysis of specific long-term projects including the construction of a refinery on the Pacific, the regasification of natural gas in the north and an increase in exports of value-added oil and coal-based products.
The document defines five principal objectives, the main of which is to maximise the energy sector’s contribution to sustainable development. The objectives include the following: using resources to meet national demand while preserving the energy sector’s long-term sustainability; consolidating regional energy integration; increasing vertical integration in the country’s energy market; developing price structures to guarantee market competitiveness; and maximising coverage and access to energy throughout the country.
Five horizontal elements fundamental for the attainment of these objectives are also analysed:
• non-conventional energy sources and rational use of energy
• environmental and public health protection
• science and technology
• institutional and regulatory framework
• information, promotion and capacity-building
The government’s goals on energy policy include the promotion of the energy sources with the highest potential in the country and especially renewables on the basis of their environmental benefits, full development of Colombia’s natural potential for the production of biofuels taking into consideration evaluations of technical, economic and environmental feasibility for domestic and foreign markets and institutional reforms to increase energy efficiency in the energy sector such as the proposed Office for the management and development of biofuels.
