Metodologías complementarias para el seguimiento de comunidades energéticas en Colombia

This report describes two complementary methodologies developed by Transforma and the Centro Insuco para la Innovación Social (ICSI) to monitor energy communities in Colombia. While Transforma's tool focuses on longitudinal national tracking across project lifecycles, ICSI's tool provides deep socioeconomic evaluations of specific territories. The document proposes integrating these tools to bridge the gap between normative models and territorial realities.

• Transforma has developed a monitoring and diagnostic methodology designed to provide systematic, comparable information on Colombian energy communities throughout their lifecycle (planning, construction, and operation). The tool uses a primary instrument for community representatives and a complementary one for households, tracking six dimensions: energy and service, socioeconomic and productive, governance and self-management, financial sustainability, cultural and environmental, and energy literacy.
• The Centro Insuco para la Innovación Social (ICSI) utilizes a baseline methodology via the Observatorio de Transformaciones Territoriales (OTT) to analyze short-term territorial transformations resulting from energy communities. This tool focuses on specific communities with a suggested application window of 12 to 18 months between the baseline and second survey, measuring dimensions of economy, demography, energy, and community governance, while producing indices for energy literacy and multidimensional energy poverty.
• A pilot application of the ICSI methodology in Tomarrazón, La Guajira, involving 218 beneficiary households, revealed several critical territorial insights: unequal electricity service quality among households, a prevalence of distrust toward institutional energy information, and significant gaps in connectivity.
• The two methodologies converge on three central analytical dimensions: energy service quality and coverage, community governance, and energy literacy. They can be articulated sequentially—using Transforma's tool to identify key communities for deeper ICSI analysis—or simultaneously to cross-reference organizational perspectives from representatives with population perspectives from households.

APA

Zapata, J., Hernando, D., Moreno, J., Castro, K., Rojo, S., & Parra, J. F. (n.d.). Metodologías complementarias para el seguimiento de comunidades energéticas en Colombia. Transforma. https://transforma.global/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/260610-Metodologias-complementarias-C.E-V2.pdf

Chicago

Zapata, Julian, Daniel Hernando, Jeanette Moreno, Karem Castro, Santiago Rojo, and Juan Felipe Parra. Metodologías complementarias para el seguimiento de comunidades energéticas en Colombia. Transforma, n.d. https://transforma.global/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/260610-Metodologias-complementarias-C.E-V2.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{zapatandmetodologas, author = {Zapata, Julian and Hernando, Daniel and Moreno, Jeanette and Castro, Karem and Rojo, Santiago and Parra, Juan Felipe}, title = {{Metodologías complementarias para el seguimiento de comunidades energéticas en Colombia}}, institution = {Transforma}, url = {https://transforma.global/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/260610-Metodologias-complementarias-C.E-V2.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }