Rodrigo Iglesias, the Executive Secretary and Deputy Minister of Energy of Chile’s National Energy Commission CNE, will open this event with the lecture “New Energies: Present and futures challenges”

A civil engineer specializing in electricity, Iglesias headed CNE’s power division from 1998 to 2005. He left to serve as a consultant, advising several Latin American countries on regulatory matters. Since 2006 is in the post of Executive Secretary of Energy of Chile’s National Energy Commission CNE.
Mr. Iglesias a veteran electricity adviser reinforced the agency’s [...]

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US Secretary Chu signs Memorandum of Cooperation with Chilean Energy Minister Tokman

Washington, DC - 23 June 2009. The Department of Energy announced today that U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Minister Marcelo Tokman of the Chilean National Energy Commission signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to further collaboration between the two nations on a series of energy issues. The Memorandum establishes an institutional framework between Chile and [...]

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Bachellet - Obama announce science partnership on Energy field

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has announced a science partnership with Chile that will include clean energy research, collaboration on the spread of flu and a cancer research center.
Obama met on Tuesday in the Oval Office with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet. He says the science-based initiatives in Chile will help the United States confront its [...]

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PhD Rodrigo Palma, Director of New FCFM Energy Center, will chair Session 6: Energy efficiency & Power conversion.

Over the past decades the world energy scenario has posed several challenges. The strategies contained in the energy policies enforced by a number of countries have had to diversify their energy matrices with the incorporation of new energy generation sources that have cause energy markets to change. Authorities, business people, as well as civil society, [...]

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