🔴 🇨🇱 **Chile produced 9.4% of its primary energy from solar in 2023 — the highest in any country that year**
"_Much of Chile's solar energy is captured in the Atacama Desert. This region, in Northern Chile, receives the highest level of sunlight exposure in the world and is home to Latin America’s first solar thermal plant._"
@guacamayan Thank you for commenting. Would you able to provide a link for the data related to the transmission capacity?
@guacamayan @bibliolater
How far can electricity reasonably be transferred on the grid?
https://www.quora.com/How-far-can-electricity-reasonably-be-transferred-on-the-grid#:~:text=There%20is%20no%20fixed%20distance,be%20consumed%20at%20the%20destination.
Thank you for the link.
@cdarwin @bibliolater The issue in Chile is not technical range. It is that there simply is not enough transmission capacity in the country to carry the tremendous quantity of electricity being generated during the day in the north down to the major consumption centers in the center of the country.
@bibliolater It's even more extreme than what you say. The chart shows how much of its *consumption* came from solar, not production. Production was much higher, but until about April it was throwing tremendous quantities of electricity awayt because of lack of transmission capacity.