- According to the Energy Ministry’s Road Map 2050, Chile’s energy consumption is expected to double by 2050. Primary uses of energy in urban areas, where the population is also more condensed, as 58% of people live in the country’s 10 largest cities, are electricity, transport, and the use of heat and cold.
- In the cities of the future, the first thing to do is to significantly increase energy efficiency through technologies such as cogeneration and heat and cold pumps. The next step will be to use as much space as possible to generate renewable energy, such as by installing solar panels on the roofs of houses and buildings.
- Promoting efficient distributed heating technologies, powered by a low emission and low pollution sources is the challenge for future cities.
- The efficient use of energy in homes and buildings could reduce energy consumption in heating and cooling by 10 to 60 percent through the building and thermal insulation improvements.
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- In the last 10 years, carbon emissions from Chile’s transportation sector have increased by approximately 20%. Land transport alone emits approximately 21.8 MM tCO2eq.
- Since 2017, the Chilean government has promoted an electric mobility strategy to convert 40% of private vehicles and 100% of urban public transport to electric vehicles by 2050.
- If electric energy required to charge these vehicles comes from renewable energies, electromobility will have a high impact on energy and climate balance. Electromobility is expected to contribute one-sixth to one-half of emissions mitigation by 2050.
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