Chile with 50% hydro power by 2034, but serious energy shortages in 2015

Monday, January 16th 2012 - 18:30 UTC

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President Sebastián Piñera announced a 20-year plan for Chile’s energy needs at the annual energy dinner in front of the country’s top executives in the electricity sector. The president said the plan aims to create “a cleaner energy, that is safer, more economical and that agrees with the energy requirements of our country.” Read full article

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Sergio Vega
Chile must be autosufficient in energies, both conventional and renewable types, and never depend on bipolar or non friendly Gvt. from our neighbors, we have had already a very desastrous experience with the natural gas contracts signed with privates companies under a s state to state agreement to asure the flow through the pipelines but it was deleted and denied by the Argentine Gvt. whithout advise...with the Peruvians we can't sign any contract because they have sued us for borderline issues....and to reach Colombia, the only other reliable country in the region we must go through Peru, so impracticable also....

Better alone than bad accompanied......
Jan 17th, 2012 - 02:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Tigre2000
It's good to see Chile doing something constructive for the environment and
to see this catch on in other counrtires in latin America.
Jan 17th, 2012 - 07:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Rufus
A worthy long-term goal right enough, however there is still the problem of the short term.
The problem with long-term planning is that you inevitably have to go through a number of short-terms to get there and given that democratic leaders have to answer to their electorates on a short-term basis, it makes long term capital-heavy projects like any form of power station (be it fossil fuel, nuclear or hydro) politically undesirable.
That is until the lights start going out, then with the power of hindsight it's very easy to be supportive of building new power stations.
Jan 17th, 2012 - 12:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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