{"id":20171,"date":"2025-12-19T15:53:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/hidroelectricidad-y-gas-natural-sostienen-la-matriz-electrica-regional-en-agosto-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:02:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:02:51","slug":"hidroelectricidad-y-gas-natural-sostienen-la-matriz-electrica-regional-en-agosto-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/hidroelectricidad-y-gas-natural-sostienen-la-matriz-electrica-regional-en-agosto-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydropower and Natural Gas Sustain the Regional Electricity Matrix in August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

The electricity generation report from the Latin American and Caribbean Energy Organization (OLACDE) highlights total generation of 161 TWh in August 2025, a volume similar to that recorded in July. This report highlights the relative variations in the regional energy mix and underscores the dynamics of renewable and non-renewable sources.<\/p>\n

The generation matrix in August 2025 kept Hydropower as the predominant source, with a 43.6% share. However, a 4% reduction in hydroelectric generation was observed compared to July 2025, attributed to drought conditions in the Andean Zone and Central America.<\/p>\n

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To offset this decline, fossil-based sources increased their contribution, with Natural Gas raising its share to 26.1% of the total. This increase reflects the role of natural gas as a firm energy source, essential to guaranteeing the security and stability of electricity supply in the region, a trend reinforced by the entry into operation of new energy complexes, such as the Energ\u00eda del Pac\u00edfico (EDP) plant in El Salvador.<\/p>\n

In the other renewables segment, Solar energy saw 5% month-on-month growth, driven by the addition of new photovoltaic installations. Wind generation also showed a slight increase, attributed to persistently strong winds in Southern Cone countries.<\/p>\n

In year-on-year terms (August 2024 vs. August 2025), total LAC electricity generation rose by 3.9%. Hydropower stood out as the resource with the largest absolute growth over this period, increasing by 9.4 TWh.<\/p>\n

Despite the predominance of renewables (101 TWh), the regional Renewability Index fell to 63% in August 2025, down from 65% in July, marking one of the lowest values in the last five months. This decline is mainly explained by dependence on hydroelectric generation and the increase in non-renewable sources, which totaled 60 TWh.<\/p>\n

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The electricity generation report from the Latin American and Caribbean Energy Organization (OLACDE) highlights total generation of 161 TWh in August 2025, a volume similar to that recorded in July. This report highlights the relative variations in the regional energy mix and underscores the dynamics of renewable and non-renewable sources. The generation matrix in August […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":20172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20563,"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20171\/revisions\/20563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olacde.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}