heat and cooling supply

Today, renewables provide 32.5% of Chile’s primary energy demandfor heat supply, the main contribution coming from the use ofbiomass. The lack of district heating networks is a severe structuralbarrier to the large scale utilisation of geothermal and solar thermalenergy. Dedicated support instruments are required to ensure adynamic development. In the Energy [R]evolution scenario,renewables provide 84% of Chile’s total heating demand in 2050.

• Energy efficiency measures help to reduce the currently growingdemand for heating and cooling, in spite of improving living standards.
• For direct heating, solar collectors, biomass/biogas as well asgeothermal energy are increasingly substituting for fossil fuelfiredsystems.
• A shift from coal and oil to natural gas in the remaining conventionalapplications will lead to a further reduction of CO2 emissions.