Chile's Renewable Energy Boom
Top Renewable Producer & Latin America's 2nd Largest Renewable Market Source: Chile's Cerro Pabellon Geothermal Power Plant Chile: Renewable Energy Global Leader Chile is engaged in a renewable energy boom. It's the second largest market for renewable energy in Latin America. It is second only to China as a producer of renewable energy in 2016. Twenty years ago, this transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy could not have been imagined. Innovation and Coalition Building Coalitions have been melded together in Chile by energy entrepreneurs, environmental organizations, social movements and the government to make this work. A new study on where a fossil fuel nation has so successfully changed focus to renewables has just been published in Policy Studies Journal. Drill Down Chile is rapidly expanding its green energy grid. The nation has vast solar and wind farms. The geothermal plant (pictured above) powers 165,000...