Big Hydropower Dams Trump Alternative Energy in Chile

Inter Press Service: Chile has enormous potential for producing non-conventional renewable energies (NCRE) like solar and geothermal, yet they only contribute three percent of the country's energy mix. Huge hydropower companies, exploiting many of the rivers in the country's wilderness regions in the south, are at the forefront of energy generation. "Chile has very little oil and natural gas in the south, and the coal is of poor quality, so in the 1930s the idea emerged that the rivers were the only viable source...

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