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Chile’s ambitious plan to add 600 mw green power annually

Chile’s ambitious plan to add 600 mw green power annually pacheta, Laguna Minique/ Atacama desert, Northern Chile (source: flickr/ Cissa Ferreira, creative commons)
Francisco Rojas 10 Jul 2014

The new Energy Agenda wants Chile to focus heavily in renewable energy, expecting to have 45% of the electricity coming from green sources by 2025. In order to achieve these goals, 600 MW of renewables must be installed per annum.

Chile is currently aiming at a very ambitious plant to focus on renewable energy, so that by 2025 45% of all generated electricity comes from green energy. As stated in our sister publication, Piensa en Geotermia, by 2025 Chile plans to overcome a number of barriers so that geothermal energy plays a bigger role.

The new Energy Agenda has as one of its main goals lifting barriers for Non Conventional Renewable Energy (NCRE). So committed that 45% of electricity generation capacity to be installed in the country between 2014 and 2025 will come from these sources, fulfilling the goal that by 2025.Chile needs to install 600 MW annually.

Carlos Finat, executive director of the Chilean Association of Renewable Energy (ACERA), says that 45% is going to be only a baseline and an even higher participation is expected.

According to government data, in addition to 1,600 MW in operation, Around 864 MW of NCRE sources are under construction, 11,374 MW that have the Environmental Qualification Resolution (RCA) approved, and 5,704 MW that are in score on the Assessment System Environmental Impact Assessment (SEIA).

Finat regrets that geothermal-energy extracted from the heat of the earth-was notably absent from the matrix, because although prices below shows the gas, even in Chile has not been developed.

Source: Plataforma Urbana via Piensa En Geotermia