Newsletter ACERA - Abril 2018

EDITORIAL
Susana Jiménez
Minister of Energy
Energy Roadmap: the path towards a modern and efficient sector
During the next decade, we will watch our country taking
advantage of the excellent competitiveness levels showed
by renewable energies, which will lead our energy evolution.
The incorporation of a larger renewable power volume shall
not be exempt from challenges, and will deeply modify our
market, generating new opportunities for innovation and
technological development.
In this context, our Ministry is called to lead this energy
transformation, generating the conditions conducive to the
massive incorporation of renewable energies to the grid. It
will be necessary to work intensely on a modern regulatory
framework which acknowledges and promotes more
flexibility, thus enabling a harmonious development of our
system and achieving its efficient incorporation. The call is,
therefore, to generate the necessary regulatory modifications
so that the market sends the right signals to strengthen a
sustainable development of our energy matrix.
seeking to raise proposals and concerns from various
sectors and actors. All of this will be reflected in a roadmap
that shall define our sector’s development path during the
next few years.
In this way, our sector’s modernization will be accompanied
by a citizen-driven energy development, strongly promoting
innovation, where the commercial and residential customers
must play an active leading part. We shall not only move
towards the electrification of our matrix, but also in facing
thermal demand through renewable sources, promoting
energy efficiency measures in the household, industrial and
transport sectors, among others.
Our proposal is to work together to build a more solidary,
sustainable, free and fair Chile, keeping an honest and close
dialogue with the purpose of strengthening the roots of a
modern, clean, safe, economic and diversified matrix.
This harmonious development requires not only the
promotion of public policies aiming at higher benefits and
lower costs for the final consumers but also looking out for
mitigating and handling possible environmental and territorial
impacts, while facilitating the accomplishment of our
international commitments to combat climate change.
This and other relevant themes are part of the content of the
Energy Roadmap 2018-2022 which has led us to visit every
region of the country as part of a participatory process