Chile

TABLE 2. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES

  Estimated available energy sources
 Fossil fuels Nuclear  Renewables
  Solid1 Liquid2 Gas3 Uranium4 Hydro5 Other
renewable6
 Total amount in specific units* 1.86 8,154 748 0.01 1.85
Total amount in exajoules (EJ) 0.08 0.35 0.409 — —
* Solid, liquid: million tonnes; gas: million m3; uranium: metric tonnes; hydro, renewable: TW.
** Light water reactor open cycle assumption.
*** National Energy Commission (CNE) estimates. Includes geothermal, wind power, biomass and small scale hydraulic energy(<20MW).
—: data not available.
1 Ministry of Energy of Chile.
2, 3 Empresa Nacional del Petrσleo (National Oil Company, ENAP).
4 Reasonably Assured Resources (RAR) under < USD 260/kgU, Uranium 2014, Resources, Production and Demand (“Red Book”).
5 Hydropower: Technically exploitable capability, the amount of the gross theoretical capability that can be exploited within the limits of current technology, CNE.
6 Energy Policy: New Guidelines, CNE, 2008. NCRE: Potential for electricity generation.
Source: Energy Policy: New Guidelines (CNE, 2008).

TABLE 3. ENERGY STATISTICS

  1980 1990 2000 2010 2013 2014



2015		 2016 Compound Annual Growth Rate (%) 2000 to 2016
Energy Consumption**              
Total 0.418 0.599 1.054 1.312 1.614 1.542 1.598 1.674 3,7%
Solids*** 0.052 0.110 0.135 0.178 0.295 0.245 0.314 0.311 5,4%
Liquids 0.222 0.286 0.473 0.692 0.722 0.730 0.700 0.732 2,8%
Gases 0.044 0.060 0.250 0.214 0.186 0.168 0.177 0.202 -1,3%
Nuclear — — — — — — — — —
Hydro 0.026 0.032 0.069 0.078 0.072 0.083 0.085 0.083 1,2%
Other Renewables**** 0.074 0.111 0.178 0.150 0.339 0.317 0.321 0.346 4,2%
Energy Production            
Total 0.304 0.339 0.368 0.324 0.526 0.525 0.515 0.530 2,3%
Solids*** 0.027 0.064 0.011 0.010 0.064 0.077 0.057 0.045 9,2%
Liquids 0.069 0.039 0.012 0.010 0.016 0.016 0.011 0.009 –1,8%
Gases 0.107 0.092 0.095 0.076 0.038 0.031 0.039 0.047 –4,3%
Nuclear — — — — — — — — —
Hydro 0.027 0.033 0.072 0.078 0.072 0.083 0.085 0.083 0,9%
Other Renewables**** 0.074 0.111 0.178 0.150 0.336 0.318 0.323 0.346 4,2%
Net import (Import-Export) 0.0114 0.260 0.686 0.988 1.088 1.017 1.083 1.143 2,9%

TABLE 4: INSTALLED CAPACITY, ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION





1990



2000



2010



2015



2016		 Compound annual growth rate (%) 2000 to last year
Capacity of electrical plants
(GW(e))
G/N
- Thermal 1.283 4.827 8.080 10.160 10.361 7.2
- Nuclear — — — — — —
- Hydro 2.486 4.272 5.230 5.730 6.393 3.1
- Wind — — 0.180 0.300 1.102 32.0
- Geothermal — — — — — —
- Other renewable 0.069 0.105 0.460 0.840 4.189 243.1
- Total 3.838 9.204 13.960 17.020 22.045 8.7
Electricity production (TW.h) G/N
- Thermal 9.440 19.859 21.668 30.856 47.281 8.6
- Nuclear — — — — — —
- Hydro 8.930 19.000 21.38 19.737 19.208 0.1
- Wind — — 0.325 0.547 2.216 36.4
- Geothermal — — — — — —
- Other renewable — 0.910 10.000 10.299 5.171 29.3
- Total** 18.370 39.769 53.369 61.439 73.877 5.4
Total electricity consumption
(TW.h)		 — 36.292 56.946 68.866 n.a. 6.0

TABLE 5: ENERGY RELATED RATIOS

  1990 2000 2010 2015 2016
Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita) 31.6 69.1 76.9 88.7 92.0
Electricity consumption per capita 1 345.7 2512.7 3337.4 3905.5 4018.1
(kW.h/capita)
Electricity production/Energy production 19.54% 40.38% 63.22% 49.13% 49.6%
Nuclear/Total electricity — — — — —
Ratio of external dependency 43.41% 65.09% 75.29% 67.75% 68.31%