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Solar overtook hydro on Chile's grid in 2025.

Today solar supplies 25% and hydro 22%.

Solar share
25%
ahead since 2025
Clean share
66%
in 2025
Total output
89TWh
a year
Per person
4,456kWh
a year
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Chile · mix since 2000
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Chile gets next to none of its electricity from oil, in a region built on it. 69% of grids in Latin America and the Caribbean draw more than a tenth of their power from oil.

What this grid depends on

Three measures that say more about a country than how much power it makes. Open “what this means” on any of them if the term is new.

Carbon intensity
289g CO₂e per kWh

Cleaner than 7 in 10 grids worldwide.

What this means

How much planet-warming gas is released to make one unit of electricity. Two countries can generate exactly the same amount and one of them be ten times dirtier doing it. Lower is better.

Electricity trade
Self-contained

Chile generates almost exactly what it uses, with next to nothing crossing its borders.

What this means

Electricity can be sold across a border like anything else, through high-voltage lines connecting one country's grid to the next. Buying it in means leaning on a neighbour to keep the lights on. Selling it means generating more than the country needs.

Energy independence
66out of 100 · Moderate

A mix of fuel produced at home and fuel bought in.

What this means

How much of what this grid runs on the country can supply itself. Sun, wind and water count fully, because nobody can cut them off; coal, gas and oil only as far as the country digs them up. A high score is not the same as a good grid: mining your own coal scores well, importing uranium scores badly.

Also true of Chile

Solar overtook coal on Chile's grid in 2023.

Today solar supplies 25% and coal 18%.

Chile's electricity is cleaner than the world average.

289 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour against a world figure of 458 — 37% below.

Chile has no dominant fuel at all.

Its largest single source supplies just 25% of the grid.

Chile’s neighbours

Figures are for 2025, the most recent year reported for Chile. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.