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4.46. With its vast mining resources, Chile is a strategic trade partner in energy transition and electromobility processes, in which copper and lithium play a key role. (...)
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4.51. In March 2022, Chile adopted the National Mining Policy 2050 by means of a decree, providing a road map for the implementation of a new sustainable development model over the next 30 years. This model has four components, namely, economic, social, environmental and institutional, under which Chile has identified 14 objectives and 78 targets/actions to achieve them. These objectives include becoming a world leader in sustainable mineral production, modernizing the mining legal framework, strengthening the corporate governance of stateowned enterprises, achieving carbon neutrality in the sector by 2040 and improving working conditions in mining, as well as including and collaborating with indigenous peoples and communities(...)
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4.52. In response to the increasing importance of lithium in the global energy transition, Chile published the National Lithium Strategy in April 2023 to ensure the sustainable exploitation of this mineral, and to increase and strengthen the State's participation in this process. This strategy consists of a package of lithium-related measures that include modernizing its institutional framework; creating a state-owned enterprise that can participate in the entire lithium production cycle; establishing the Public Institute for Technology and Research on Lithium and Salt Flats; and involving the State in Salar de Atacama's mining activities through CODELCO[the National Copper Corporation]. (...)
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4.58. Any natural or legal person, whether Chilean or foreign, can request a mining concession. (...) Once the concession is granted, the concession-holder, depending on the project in question, must request different permits (there are 230 types) and meet numerous requirements that cover environmental, energy and project safety aspects, among others. (...)
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4.67. During the period 2015-22, energy consumption in Chile trended upward and continued to be composed mainly of petroleum products, which in 2021 accounted for 57% of total energy consumption, followed by electricity (23%), biomass and biogas (11%), and natural gas (7%) (...)
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4.68. During the period under review, Chile significantly increased its capacity to generate electricity from renewable sources (mainly solar and wind) and continued to promote the incorporation of this type of energy into its energy matrix, in order to move the energy transition forward and gradually abandon fossil fuels. To that end, Chile has produced a series of complementary strategic documents that define objectives for the short, medium and long term. In December 2015, Chile published its national energy policy, called Energy 2050, which was updated in February 2022. This policy establishes a road map and various targets to be reached by 2050 for a sustainable and inclusive energy supply in the country. The targets include, among other things, ensuring that at least 80% of the electricity produced in the country comes from renewable sources by 2030 and 100% by 2050, as well as ensuring that at least 70% of non-electric final energy consumption comes from zeroemission fuels, such as green hydrogen and its derivatives, by 2050.
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4.69. To make progress in meeting these objectives, Chile adopted the Electricity Matrix Decarbonization Plan in 2019, which provides for the closure of eight coal-fired power plants by 2024.[99] In December 2021, this plan was supplemented by the Just Energy Transition Strategy, which covers the process of decommissioning all coal-fired power plants (28) by 2040. As of December 2022, eight had been closed. In 2022, the National Green Hydrogen Strategy was approved, through which Chile is seeking to become a leader in the exportation and production of green hydrogen by 2030. The National Electromobility Strategy was also published that same year, with which Chile undertakes to ensure that all new light and medium-sized vehicles sold in the country by 2035 are fully electric. In line with these commitments, Chile adopted the Framework Law on Climate Change in June 2022, which sets the objective of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, and approved the National Energy Efficiency Plan 202226 in April 2023.
[99 ]Ministry of Energy, Plan de Descarbonización de la Matriz Eléctrica. (...)
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4.70. Other strategic documents published in recent years are the National Heat and Cold Strategy (June 2021), the Long-Term Energy Planning Programme 2023-27 (September 2021), the Energy Agenda 2022-26 (August 2022) and the Initial Agenda for a Second-Stage Energy Transition (April 2023).
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4.73. During the period 2015-22, electricity was generated mainly from coal, which accounted for an average of 36% of the total, followed by hydropower (28%), natural gas (17%), solar energy (8%) and wind energy (6%) (...) Although coal was still the main source of electricity, its share decreased significantly, dropping from 39% in 2015 to 23% in 2022. At the same time, electricity generation from solar and wind energy grew tenfold and fourfold, respectively, between 2015 and 2022. (...)
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4.76. (...) To support the energy transition, Law No. 21.305, which aims to promote energy efficiency and provides for the development of an Energy Efficiency Plan every five years, was adopted in 2021, and Law No. 21.505, which seeks to promote the development of electrical energy storage systems and electromobility, was adopted in 2022.(...)
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