The seminar, Energy Agenda: Chile’s great challenge, took place on Tuesday, July 15 in the SOFOFA auditorium. The Chilean Renewable Energies Association, ACERA, organized the event. Two hundred participants and a group of panelists and esteemed presenters, such as Rodrigo Palma, SERC Chile director, attended the event.
On Tuesday July 15, a seminar organized by ACERA energy was held with the purpose of generating a space to discuss and analyze different concerns arising against our country’s energy agenda, whose guidelines and targets are based on the 7-axis, which consider different technical, economic, social and environmental aspects.
Questions about how the agenda will be developed, under what terms, the effects and what the promises made will mean for the future of the country gave way to interesting dialogue by exhibitors, panelists and moderators.
The daytime workshop was divided into two forums. The first, called “Control Panel,” contributed by analyzing legal ground rules and the agenda’s implementation standards as well as its effects. This space included a presentation by Andres Romero, executive secretary of the National Energy Commission and by Senator Jaime Orpis (CNE). The panel included the same senator accompanied by Senator Jorge Insunza, Vivianne Blanlot and Clemente Perez. Hernan Moya, head of the Legal Division for the Ministry of Energy, served as the moderator.
After a break, the seminar continued with the forum “Society, Academia and Industry,” whose purpose was broadening the discussion by including representatives from various key sectors in industry, with the goal of sharing insights and analysis on the possible effects of the energy agenda on development.
It was precisely in this area where Rodrigo Palma, director of SERC was part of the panel. Here he was joined by other experts in the field such as Sara Larrain, director of Chile Verde, René Muga, executive vice president of Chilean Generators AG, Rodrigo Castillo, executive director Electric Companies and Carlos Finat, executive director of ACERA.
The day concluded with some remarks from Raul Sohr, one of our country’s most prominent journalists, sociologists and political analysts.
