Driving the Energy Transition in Colombia for Off-Grid Regions: Microgrids and Non-Conventional Renewable Energy Sources

Jaime Alberto Cerón, Eduardo Gómez-Luna and Juan C. Vasquez ()
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Jaime Alberto Cerón: Grupo de Investigación en Alta Tensión—GRALTA, Escuela de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica Universidad del Valle, Cali 760015, Colombia
Eduardo Gómez-Luna: Grupo de Investigación en Alta Tensión—GRALTA, Escuela de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica Universidad del Valle, Cali 760015, Colombia
Juan C. Vasquez: Center for Research on Microgrids (CROM), AAU Energy, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark

Energies, 2025, vol. 18, issue 4, 1-21

Abstract: At present, the Colombian government is faced with the challenge of guaranteeing access to energy services for all its inhabitants. However, as there are isolated populations or populations with difficult access to conventional electricity grids in the country, it is necessary to seek innovative and appropriate solutions to the conditions and needs of the so-called non-interconnected zones (NIZs), which allow the generation and consumption of energy in a local, efficient, and safe way for all users. For this reason, this research consisted of studying and proposing technological solutions that use distributed energy resources, making the most of the energy potential in each area, as a proposed solution to the problems faced by NIZs with energy shortages. As a result, a series of proposals with microgrids are obtained, taking advantage of their flexible characteristics and using NRES as energy sources, mitigating pollution and contributing to the energy transition sought by the Colombian government.

Keywords: microgrids (MGs); non-conventional renewable energy sources (NRES); distributed energy resources (DERs); non-interconnected zones (NIZs); indicative expansion and coverage plan (IECP); national energy plan (NEP) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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