General:

Area:         756,950 sq km

Capital:      Santiago                               

Weather:   The climate of Chile comprises a wide range of weather conditions across a large geographic scale.           

Population: 16,746,491

Electricity Supply:

Power utility company: Chile has 15 different regions from north to south, and about 14 different electric companies/distributers working under the ministry of energy and under government rule, these are semi-private electric companies.

Total Power consumption: The annual consumption per person in Chile is about 3074KWH

PV radiation:  In Chile goes between 900 KWH/ per KW in the south to 2,200KWH per KW in the northern Atacama Desert.

Avg. price per  Kwh (comm.):   Price for KWH for house use– 0.21$/0.15 euro.

Price for industrial use is 0.10 euro but there is an added price if used during peak times, such is the matter, that most big industrial users use diesel generators during peak hours (1800-2300 during the winter, 1/5 to 30/9).

Renewable Energy resources: wind: good; Geothermal: good; Solar: good

Regulative body: There is no government subside or fit-in tariff for PV energy, although there are a lot of laws being passed now in order to have a regulation

Renewable Energy legislation:

State goal: The renewable energy goal, according to law no’ 20.257 is: 5% by the end of this year, 10% by the year 2024(3,410 MW) mostly off grid systems

PV Feed-In-Tariff current: There is no government subside or fit-in tariff for PV energy

PV Market: First ground PV plant installed in Chile is a 9MW field in the Atacama Desert by Solarpak Spain, the plant will be enlarged to 20MW and later on 250MW in the near future.

Other foreign companies working in Chile include Sanyo and the German Inventor alongside many local companies.