Colombia. Status: operational.
Wholesale design: A centrally dispatched day-ahead energy pool (Bolsa) based on generator offers operates alongside bilateral contracts; deviations are settled through the wholesale market.
Mercado de Energía Mayorista (Colombia SIN) has 2 ancillary-service products, across 2 families — frequency containment and automatic frequency restoration: Regulación Primaria de Frecuencia, Regulación Secundaria de Frecuencia / AGC. Response timing, direction and eligibility for each are in the table below; a product's full record lists the official sources behind it.
Every value below comes from the official sources listed in that product's full record. Most products cite more than one, and the published sources do not say which of them states each individual value, so the binding is to the product's record rather than to a single document. A missing line means the source does not state that value — never that the value is zero.
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| Service | How it activates | Response | Sustained delivery | Procurement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frequency containment | ||||
| Regulación Primaria de Frecuencia RPF symmetric operational | Response type continuous; automatic local Trigger Governor/control response around nominal frequency under the Colombian operating code; the cited rules state no single threshold. | No deadline established Technical parameters are resource- and code-specific; no current universal value verified in the cited public report | Varies System-operational requirement No annual fixed range verified. Bought Continuous obligation for centrally dispatched eligible generation Through mandatory provision Pricing design Mandatory technical service under system rules | |
Full record for Regulación Primaria de Frecuencia — document bound, page for these figures not recorded What it is for Automatically contain frequency deviations through local governor or plant controls. Who can provide it Centrally dispatched generating units subject to the applicable technical rules. What the source does not state The source states a procurement volume in its own words. It does not state a response time or how long delivery has to be sustained. Sources
The official evidence behind this row is real but incomplete, contextual or reference-only — not specific enough to state these values more firmly. | ||||
| Automatic frequency restoration | ||||
| Regulación Secundaria de Frecuencia / AGC RSF/AGC symmetric operational | Response type continuous; automatic central Trigger Central AGC control signal and system area-control requirements. | No deadline established No current universal activation time verified in the cited public sources | Varies Hourly system requirement No annual fixed range verified. Bought Daily offers of hourly AGC availability Through co-optimised with the energy market Pricing design AGC availability offers and market settlement under XM rules | |
Full record for Regulación Secundaria de Frecuencia / AGC — document bound, page for these figures not recorded What it is for Automatically restore frequency and scheduled interchange using centralized AGC. Bought in blocks of 1 h Who can provide it XM-qualified units enabled for AGC. What the source does not state The source states a procurement volume in its own words. It does not state a response time or how long delivery has to be sustained. Sources
The official evidence behind this row is real but incomplete, contextual or reference-only — not specific enough to state these values more firmly. | ||||
Mercado de Energía Mayorista (Colombia SIN) has 1 capacity/adequacy arrangement: Cargo por Confiabilidad / Obligaciones de Energía Firme. The official sources do not say whether it is a central capacity market. Responsibility sits with CREG / XM.
operational
Generators receive reliability remuneration in exchange for a firm-energy obligation during scarcity conditions. The obligation is energy per day, not MW capacity.
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