*Ecuador’s energy and environment minister, Inés Manzano, has said that the Colombian government led by President Gustavo Petro is not currently able to resume electricity exports to Ecuador, which were paused in September as both countries struggle with low water levels at hydroelectric power plants. Manzano told the Colombian television news channel Noticias Caracol that Colombia’s mining & energy minister, Andrés Camacho, had told her that “although there is the availability and the political will, they cannot sell to the 18m Ecuadoreans who need energy, so we’re turning to the private sector”. Petro met Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa yesterday in Cali, the capital of Colombia’s Valle del Cauca department. A statement from the Colombian presidency said that “both leaders discussed issues of energy cooperation and agreed a next meeting in the Galápagos Islands to continue their conversation”.
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LatinNews Daily - 30 October 2024
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