Oral Presentation: Renewable energies used in Chile.

In mi presentation I'm going to talk about a very important topic for Geographers. It's the renewable energies used in Chile. Our country dependens, as the whole world, on several sources of energy: the coal, the gas, the electricity and specially the oil. The instability in the price and provision of the fuel because of the war in Iraq and the crisis of the Argentine gas they are samples of this relation. And this dependence accents when such sources of energy are limited, exhaustible, not renewable, which provokes a strong economic impact when there are shortage or limitations to his distribution.

77 % of the brute energy consumed in Chile in the year 2001 corresponds to not renewable resources, specifically coal, oil and natural gas. 33 remaining % falls down in the category of renewable energies, as the electricity generated in hydroelectric plants.

 Nowadays in Chile interest exists in some circles to promote the use of renewable energies, since they are of low cost of exploitation and virtually inexhaustible.

 
The energies used in Chile are:

 Solar power: It has a participation of 46,3 % in the panorama of the renewable not conventional energies in Chile. The zone in which it is more used is in the north of the country, due to being an area of high solar radiations.

 Microhydraulic energy: that has more participation, with 48,5 %

Geothermal energy: 4,4 % of the renewable energy in use in the country corresponds to this variant.

 Wind power: His use still is considered to be scanty (0,4 % of the total of renewable energies

 Biomass: The biomass is the set of organic renewable matter of vegetable or animal origin.

In summary, in this work, I’m going to try to show and explain the use of these energies, the effects and to indicate the regions in those that focus.