La comercialización de fluido eléctrico en la costa caribe colombiana análisis de las tensiones generadas con el hurto de energía fundamentado en el estado de necesidad

Abstract

To analyze the legal framework that allows for minimizing electricity theft on the Colombian Caribbean Coast. Despite its short legal and jurisprudential development in the country, the crime of electricity theft, defined in Article 256 of Law 599 of 2000, has been increasing significantly in recent years. This crime consists of the illicit appropriation of electricity, water, natural gas, or telecommunications signals through the use of clandestine mechanisms or the alteration of control systems designed for their accurate measurement. This situation represents millions of dollars in losses each year for companies that are dedicated to the distribution and marketing of this type of service, while at the same time, and in contrast, there is the obligation that the Constitution requires them to be able to guarantee the correct and efficient distribution of the same to the entire community in general, in accordance with the extensive jurisprudence issued on the subject and the regulations that govern the matter, determined mainly in Law 142 of 1994.