Chile Energy - 2024

Electricity access

electrification - total population: 100% (2021)

Electricity

installed generating capacity: 29.808 million kW (2020 est.)

consumption: 75.302 billion kWh (2020 est.)

exports: 0 kWh (2020 est.)

imports: 0 kWh (2020 est.)

transmission/distribution losses: 4.62 billion kWh (2020 est.)

Electricity generation sources

fossil fuels: 51.9% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

nuclear: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

solar: 9.5% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

wind: 6.9% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

hydroelectricity: 26% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

tide and wave: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

geothermal: 0.3% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

biomass and waste: 5.4% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Coal

production: 542,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

consumption: 10.573 million metric tons (2020 est.)

exports: 134,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

imports: 10.607 million metric tons (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 1.181 billion metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum

total petroleum production: 11,900 bbl/day (2021 est.)

refined petroleum consumption: 361,700 bbl/day (2019 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate exports: 0 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate imports: 172,700 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil estimated reserves: 150 million barrels (2021 est.)

Refined petroleum products - production

216,200 bbl/day (2017 est.)

Refined petroleum products - exports

7,359 bbl/day (2017 est.)

Refined petroleum products - imports

166,400 bbl/day (2017 est.)

Natural gas

production: 1,109,962,000 cubic meters (2020 est.)

consumption: 6,558,312,000 cubic meters (2020 est.)

exports: 0 cubic meters (2021 est.)

imports: 4,602,471,000 cubic meters (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 97.976 billion cubic meters (2021 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions

88.333 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from coal and metallurgical coke: 24.217 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from petroleum and other liquids: 51.228 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from consumed natural gas: 12.888 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita

81.953 million Btu/person (2019 est.)