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The Republic of Chile is a long and narrow country located in the south west of South America with 4270 kilometers of coastline facing the Pacific Ocean and an average width of 177 kilometers from east to west (Hudson 1994). Additionally, Chile is one of the seven countries that have done territorial claims in the Antarctica before the signature of the Antarctic Treaty in Washington, 1959.
The country has 208 years of independence preceded by a period of 270 years of Spanish colonialism. The country’s population is mostly white and mestizo and 12.8% of it declares to be part of an indigenous ethnic group (INE 2017). Religious tradition of the country is strongly linked to Christianity with 67% of citizens professing the Catholic faith and 15% some Protestant derivation.
Chile has a population of 17.6 million inhabitants (INE 2017) of which 69.39% are at working age (OCDE 2014). The average gross domestic product (GDP) of the last 3 years − 2015, 2016, and 2017 −...
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Abbreviations
- APEC:
-
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
- BC*:
-
Chilean Central Bank
- CEN*:
-
National Electric Coordinator
- CEOP*:
-
Special Petroleum Operation Contract
- CNE*:
-
National Energy Commission
- CODELCO*:
-
National Copper Corporation
- ENAP*:
-
National Petroleum Company
- GATT:
-
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- GDP:
-
Gross Domestic Product
- GHG:
-
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- GSA:
-
Gas Sale Agreement
- IAEA:
-
International Atomic Energy Agency
- ICSID:
-
International Centre for Settlement of Investments Disputes
- INE*:
-
Chilean National Institute of Statistics
- kW:
-
Kilowatt
- LGSE*:
-
General Law on Electrical Services
- LNG:
-
Liquefied Natural Gas
- MW:
-
Megawatt
- MWh:
-
Megawatt/hour
- OECD:
-
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- PMGD*:
-
Small-Distributed Generation Facilities
- SEC*:
-
Superintendence of Electricity and Fuels
- SEN*:
-
National Interconnected System
- SIC*:
-
Central Interconnected System
- SING*:
-
Great Northern Interconnected System
- TUA:
-
Terminal Use Agreement
- UNFCCC:
-
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
- WTO:
-
World Trade Organization
- (*):
-
Original acronym in Spanish
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Riesco Tagle, M. (2019). Chile: Energy Policy. In: Tiess, G., Majumder, T., Cameron, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mineral and Energy Policy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40871-7_33-1
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