ENGIE to Stop Burning Coal in Chile by End of 2025

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--ENGIE Energía Chile S.A., a subsidiary of ENGIE S.A. (La Défense, France), has announced that the Andina & Hornitos Thermoelectric Complex in the Antofagasta Region of Chile will be disconnected by January 1, 2026. With the retirement of both 160-megawatt (MW) units, Engie Chile will have stopped burning coal for power generation in the country.

The May 10 announcement comes in the context of the plan to decarbonize Chile's energy matrix, which was launched in June 2019, whereby all coal-fired units in the country must be disconnected by 2030. Since then, more than 2 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired power generation have been retired, reducing the installed capacity of 5.25 GW in June 2019 to 3.3 GW in April 2024. To replace the missing capacity, the country is developing renewables (particularly investments in new wind and solar photovoltaic capacity) along with adapting and expanding its electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure and battery electricity storage systems (BESS) to counter the intermittency of renewable generation.

Today the country has a portfolio of renewable projects with an aggregate investment of about US$50 billion, representing more than 42 GW of new solar and wind capacity and more than 10 GW of new BESS capacity in different stages of planning, engineering and construction and with the start of operation to December 2030.

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