Chile

Mountain Partners to Create Chile’s First Climate VC Fund

December 9, 2021

For the first time ever, Chile will have a climate venture capital fund that will focus on investing in companies contributing to fighting climate change. Mountain Partners AG’s Chilean division is in the process of setting up the fund. They planned to raise $50 million, and have already secured most of the funding. Its first […]

Chile: Santiago airport is set to be the first in the region to use hydrogen as fuel

October 26, 2021

Both the Chilean Ministry of Energy and Mining and Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport announced their plans to evaluate initiatives and projects that would promote the use of green hydrogen in aircraft operating in the country’s capital. It becomes the first airport to use this technology in Latin America.   Source

Chile gets its first green hydrogen truck from South Korea

October 14, 2021

Chile announced it is poised to be getting its first green hydrogen truck in early 2022. The XCIENT Fuel Cell truck will be brought in from South Korea, where it was devised and developed. Source (in Spanish)

Colbun to build major wind farm in northern Chile

September 24, 2021

Chilean generator Colbun plans to install Latin America’s largest wind farm in the Atacama desert, expanding Chile’s burgeoning renewable energy base which the government hopes to leverage for green hydrogen. The 778MW Horizonte project requires $850mn in investment for the installation of 140 turbines 130km (80.8mi) from Taltal in the Antofagasta region. Construction is scheduled […]

Porsche and Siemens break ground on low-carbon e-fuel plant in Chile

September 15, 2021

Porsche and Siemens are developing a low-carbon synthetic fuel that combines green hydrogen (produced by wind-powered electrolysis) with carbon dioxide (filtered from the atmosphere) to form methanol, which is in turn then turned into gasoline. On Friday, the two organizations broke ground on the Haru Oni manufacturing plant near Punta Arenas in Chile. Assuming all […]

Climate Change and the role of geothermal for Chile

September 14, 2021

In an interview with Diego Morata, director of the Geothermal Center of Excellence for the Andes, by ThinkGeoEnergy, he points out the key role that geothermal energy could play in the future context of hydroelectric generation and climate change in Chile. “We have finally seen it rain in south central Chile and, in fact, we […]

Chile sets record rates in renewable bids

September 1, 2021

Twenty-nine companies placed bids to further develop renewables in Chile setting a record rate. Source (in Spanish)

Giga-scale green hydrogen: ‘Developers are being unrealistic about levelized costs’

August 4, 2021

Recent announcements such as the $70bn, 28GW Western Green Energy Hub in Australia, the 15GW Oman project or the relatively meagre 4GW Helios project in Saudi Arabia and HNH in Chile have captured the headlines but there is one interesting point they all have in common. Each project’s estimated levelised cost of hydrogen works out […]

Four Things to Know About California’s Hydrogen Market – and Why Latin America Should Pay Attention

From our Editorial Team

July 21, 2021

California is getting serious about hydrogen. Governor Newsom’s recent executive order calling for the elimination of new internal combustion passenger vehicles by 2035 cited the state-wide target of 200 hydrogen stations by 2025. Various legislators are also pushing for $300 million of the state budget to be set aside to bolster hydrogen-related infrastructure. Against this […]