The tender for the contract involves 170 geothermal locations, with an aim of increasing the country’s geothermal power to 1,000 MW.
The country is advancing geothermal energy development, hence providing concession of various areas for exploitation. Minister of Energy, Ricardo Raineri, declared the results of the submitted proposals for 20 locations in the Los Rios and Tarapacos regions. Totally, 70 bids were received from 13 local as well as foreign companies.
In addition, Raineri had already announced above 170 concessions for geothermal resource by 2012. For this, the government will invest more than $200 million. The use of geothermal energy resource is a vital element in the newly enacted policy of Chile for fulfilling the increasing energy demand in a sustainable way.
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Ojála se pueda empezar de manera real y efectiva la construcción de generadoras de electridad a base de energías renovables y no debamos seguir dependiendo de si llueve o no para no sufrir por el fantasma del racionamiento energético.
ResponderBorrarAdemás la verdad hay que buscar la forma en que sea más amigable con el medio ambiente nuestras formas de proveernos de energía, no hay que olvidar que somos de una de las naciones más dañadas por el agujero de la capa de ozono.
Esa es mi opinión.