Chile Key Figures
- Population:
- 19.3 million
- GDP growth rate:
- -5.6 %/year
- Energy independence:
- 32.9%
Data of the last year available: 2020
- Total consumption/GDP:*
- 90.3 (2005=100)
- CO2 Emissions:
- 4.45 tCO2/capita
- Rate of T&D power losses:
- 3.98%
* at purchasing power parity
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Total Energy Consumption
Energy consumption per capita is around 2 toe. The country's electricity consumption per capita is around 4 000 kWh.
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Crude Oil Production
Oil production is negligible (0.4 Mt in 2020). Imports consisted of 7.7 Mt of crude and 7.2 Mt of oil products in 2020.
The Arica pipeline makes it possible to import oil from Bolivia. The Transandin pipeline, which connects Chile to Argentina, stopped operating in 2006.
The country has a refining capacity of 236 kb/d, split between three refineries operated by ENAP: RPC (104 kb/d), Petrox (116 kb/d), and Gregorio in Magallanes (16 kb/d).
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Renewable in % Electricity Production
The development of renewables is under the responsibility of the Sustainable Energy Department of the Ministry of Energy.
In 2013, CNE approved a new legal target of 20% by 2025 for the share of non-conventional renewables (excluding hydropower above 20 MW) in the power mix; the target was reportedly reached in 2020. The country will aim for non-conventional renewables to make up 45% of all new capacities installed between 2014 and 2025.
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CO2 Fuel Combustion/CO2 Emissions
In its revised NDC (2020), Chile is committed to becoming carbon neutral in 2050 and fixes an intermediate objective of 95 MtCO2eq emissions by 2030 (compared to 123 MtCO2eq in its first NDC, a cut of 23%).
GHG emissions reached 112 MtC02eq in 2018 excluding LULUCF (48 MtCO2eq with LULUCF): they have increased regularly by 2.9%/year since 1990.
CO2 emissions from energy combustion almost tripled between 1990 and 2020, from 31 to 86 MtCO2.
Graph: CO2-ENERGY EMISSIONS (MtCO2)