SANTAGO – Chilean copper producer Antofagasta has sold its electricity transmission business Centinela Transmisión to Red Eléctrica Chile SpA, a subsidiary of Red Eléctrica Internacional, for US$117 million. On Friday, the company said the sale of the unit […]
BUENOS AIRES – Argentina will begin exporting natural gas to neighboring Chile before the end of 2018, the energy ministers of both countries said on Thursday. Chilean companies are in talks to sign import deals […]
LIMA – Enel Green Power (EGP) Perú has begun commercial operations of its 145MW Rubí solar photovoltaic park in southern Moquegua. With more than 560,000 photovoltaic panels that will produce 144.48 MW of effective power, […]
SANTIAGO – Magallanes Region in the extreme south of Chile is taking advantage of its weather conditions and will convert its wind gusts into energy. With some six million dollars from the National Fund for […]
SANTIAGO – President Michelle Bachelet has declared Chile will not build new coal plants, beginning talks to replace existing capacity with cleaner sources. The country’s energy ministry has secured an agreement with its major utilities […]
SANTIAGO – The Catholic University of Chile leads pioneering research worldwide in “two-sided” solar panels, a technology that generates 25% more energy than traditional devices and that would make the most of this natural resource. […]
CARL ANDREWS SANTIAGO – Chile has been in the news lately as a champion of solar and wind electricity generation. Chilean officials have announced a very ambitious goal, saying the country is on track to […]
BEIJING – China on Thursday opened a 1-km section of the world’s first solar expressway for testing. Solar panels are laid beneath part of a ring road surrounding Jinan, capital city of Shandong Province in […]
SANTIAGO – This week, Chile inaugurated its new National Electric System after it merged the Central Interconnected Systems (SIC) and the Northern Interconnected System Grid (SING). The new system, Sistema Eléctrico Nacional in Spanish, serves […]
SANTIAGO – The Chilean government has awarded the Colbún power generation company the site to install the Horizonte wind farm involving an investment of US$ 971 million. Electric power generation in Horizonte could reach 607 […]
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