Building A $2 Billion Subsea Solar Power Cable From Chile To China
Chile is planning to build a 15,000 km subsea cable for a cost of more than $2 billion to send solar energy to China This project would solve one of Continue Reading
Chile Could Save Argentina’s Shale Boom
Latin America just seems to be unable to synchronize its long-mooted upswing with global energy trends. Venezuela boasts the largest reserves on earth yet just as it starts to recover Continue Reading
Chile aims to become major hydrogen producer by 2030
The Chilean government has set itself ambitious targets to become one of the world’s leading exporters of green hydrogen by the end of the decade, taking advantage of the country’s Continue Reading
The Saudi Arabia of Lithium Has a Calming Message for Car Makers
he nation sitting on half the world’s lithium reserves has a calming message for electric car makers: tougher environmental oversight won’t threaten future production of the metal used to make batteries. Chile’s environmental regulator is working Continue Reading
Chile seeks to turn solar boom into green hydrogen bonanza
Less than a decade ago energy companies scoffed at Chile’s drive to develop its renewables sector, rejecting it as too expensive even though the Andean country boasts some of the Continue Reading
Chilean minister says future hydrogen industry to rival copper
Chile, the world’s largest producer of copper, could one day be exporting as much as green hydrogen as it does minerals, according to a top government official. Speaking during a Continue Reading
Chile’s hospitals under strain as coronavirus cases near 70,000, president says
Chile’s healthcare system is under strain and “very close to the limit,” President Sebastian Pinera said on Sunday, as the number of confirmed novel coronavirus infections approaches 70,000 after a Continue Reading
Chile charges state oil company with improper fracking in Tierra del Fuego
Chile’s environmental regulator on Monday charged state oil company ENAP with improper fracking in Tierra del Fuego, a wild, largely unpopulated region at the southern fringe of the South American Continue Reading
Chile speeds up coal-fired power plant closure plan, agrees to shut newest facility
Highlights AES, Engie commit to accelerated shutdown plan Chile wants to be carbon neutral by 2040 Santiago, Chile — Engie will close its newest power plant in Chile after just Continue Reading
Spain to host U.N. climate talks in December after Chile cancels
Spain will host U.N. climate change talks in December after Chile withdrew, the United Nations said on Friday, a last-minute switch which raises big logistical challenges and has left activist Continue Reading
Spain Agrees to Host Key Climate Talks After Chile Pulls Out
Madrid has offered to hold the next United Nations climate talks, the leaders of Spain and Chile announced on Thursday. The announcement came a day after Chile said it could Continue Reading
Chile cancels climate and Apec summits amid mass protests
Sebastián Piñera, centre, said his government needed to concentrate on “re-establishing public order” Chile has pulled out of hosting two major international summits, including a UN climate change conference, as Continue Reading
Chile’s ENAP to receive first cargo of WTI crude from US Gulf Coast: sources
Chilean state oil company ENAP will accept its first cargo of WTI Midland-spec crude at the Port of Quintero this month, sources said Thursday. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes Continue Reading
Exclusive: China’s Tianqi nears $4.3 billion deal to buy stake in Chile’s SQM – sources
China’s Tianqi Lithium ( 002466.SZ ) is nearing a deal to buy a 24 percent stake in Chile’s Sociedad Quimica Y Minera (SQM) SQMa.SN, one of the world’s biggest lithium Continue Reading
Chile’s ENAP, Argentina’s YPF inaugurate $354 million offshore gas project
The state-run energy firms of Chile and Argentina said on Wednesday they had inaugurated a $354 million project to increase production of natural gas off the southern tip of South Continue Reading
Exclusive: Chile energy minister sees low power prices falling further
Record low renewable energy prices in Chile are here to stay and will likely push power prices even lower, Chile’s energy minister told Reuters, a development that would pressure the Continue Reading
Russian nuclear firm Rosatom eyes Chilean lithium
The logo of Russian state nuclear monopoly Rosatom is pictured at the World Nuclear Exhibition 2014, the trade fair event for the global nuclear energy sector, in Le Bourget, near Continue Reading
Battery-hungry world turns to South America’s ‘lithium triangle’
Workers use a boat to take samples from a brine pool at the Rockwood Lithium plant on the Atacama salt flat, the largest lithium deposit currently in production, in the Continue Reading