{
  "query": {
    "country": "CO",
    "energy": "electricity",
    "consumption_band": "1",
    "operator": "cali"
  },
  "status": "ok",
  "price": {
    "currency": "COP",
    "unit": "per kWh (regulated unit cost of supply, CU, level 1, operator-owned connection, before taxes, subsidies and contributions)",
    "value": 725.89,
    "measure": "average",
    "median": null,
    "typical_low": null,
    "typical_high": null,
    "min": null,
    "max": null
  },
  "sample_size": null,
  "period": {
    "from": "2025-09-01",
    "to": "2025-09-30"
  },
  "confidence": "high",
  "price_type": "posted_price",
  "statistic": {
    "measure": "average",
    "reference_period": "2025-09",
    "note": "Regulated unit cost (CU) for EMCALI (Cali) only, not all of Colombia; the newest month in the dataset is 2025-09."
  },
  "as_of": "2026-10-30T13:12:30.450Z",
  "source": {
    "id": "co-minenergia-tariffs",
    "name": "Colombia electricity unit cost of supply (CU), regulated tariff by utility",
    "publisher": "Open data on datos.gov.co (Colombian government open data portal); attribution on the dataset: E.S.P. Empresas Públicas de Medellín - EPM",
    "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0), as stated in the dataset's metadata. Reuse conditions for our derived figures are not yet confirmed, so this source is served on the free tier only.",
    "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode",
    "attribution": "Source: datos.gov.co, \"Costo unitario de prestación del servicio de energía\" (dataset ytme-6qnu), E.S.P. Empresas Públicas de Medellín - EPM, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode).",
    "url": "https://www.datos.gov.co/resource/ytme-6qnu.json"
  },
  "method": "Colombia electricity: the regulated unit cost of supply (CU) that the dataset on datos.gov.co lists per utility, month and voltage level, in COP per kWh. We pass on the newest month for the chosen utility and level. A regulated tariff component (a posted price), not a bill and not an amount paid. Only four utility areas are in the dataset.",
  "method_url": "https://proofprice.com/method",
  "summary": "The regulated unit cost of electricity supply for EMCALI (Cali) in 2025-09 (level 1) was COP 725.89 per kWh. Published by Open data on datos.gov.co (Colombian government open data portal); attribution on the dataset: E.S.P. Empresas Públicas de Medellín - EPM for 2025-09.",
  "notice": "Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.",
  "extra": {
    "operator": "cali",
    "operator_name": "EMCALI - Cali",
    "level": "1",
    "month": "2025-09",
    "previous_month": "2025-08",
    "previous_cu_cop_per_kwh": 748.98,
    "level1_by_ownership_cop_per_kwh": {
      "operator": 725.89,
      "shared": 711.54,
      "customer": 697.2
    },
    "areas_available": [
      "bogota",
      "cali",
      "valle",
      "tolima"
    ]
  },
  "answer_id": "ans_53a9245efc26d8f58b0b",
  "method_version": "1",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T13:12:30.450Z",
  "evidence": {
    "type": "posted_price",
    "label": "Posted or listed price",
    "meaning": "A price a seller, market or authority publishes in advance (a shelf price, tariff, fee schedule or quoted wholesale price): it is what is asked, not a record of what each customer paid."
  },
  "reliability": "official_median_no_count",
  "data_as_of": "2025-09-30",
  "data_age_days": 395,
  "suggestions": [
    "This is one published figure (an average, median, index or listed price) with no record count: use it as a reference point, not as a range of what individuals paid.",
    "For a decision on a specific job or purchase, ask for an itemised quote.",
    "The newest data is over a year old: prices may have moved, so check for a more recent source.",
    "This is a posted price, not what each customer paid."
  ]
}