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What do households in Colombia pay for electricity (operator cali)?

Household and business energy prices in Colombia, from Open data on datos.gov.co. This source is answered live, so the page shows how to ask, not a number.

Posted prices, as published by the official source. They are not individual receipts.

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Source
Colombia electricity unit cost of supply (CU), regulated tariff by utility, 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
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.
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).
How fresh the source is
The dataset on datos.gov.co was last modified 15 July 2026 and its newest month is September 2025; each answer states its month
Limits
Only four utility areas (ENEL Bogotá, EMCALI Cali, CELSIA Valle del Cauca, CELSIA Tolima), not all of Colombia. A regulated unit cost of supply (CU) in COP per kWh, before taxes, subsidies and contributions: not a bill, not an offer and not an amount paid. The newest month in the dataset is September 2025. Electricity only. No sample size.
Rule
A figure built from records is shown only when at least 5 records sit behind it; official statistics are shown as such, with their reference period. See how we earn trust and the method.

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