Seminar: Advances and Challenges for a More Flexible and Robust Electric System (August 2025)

Chile has ambitious goals for advancing its energy transition. In the case of the electricity system, it aims to meet 80% of electricity demand with renewable energy by 2030 and achieve the total closure of coal-fired power plants by 2040. To implement these changes in the electricity matrix, it is essential to do so reliably, while maintaining the security of the system.

There are significant challenges to achieving this, mainly due to the variable and intermittent nature of renewable energies, as well as the decline in the flexibility attributes provided by thermal power plants. However, there are also opportunities associated with new technologies based on power electronics, along with better tools to optimize system operation.

In this context, the seminar “Flexibility and Robustness of the Electric System,” organized by the Energy Center of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and EDF Power Solutions Chile, seeks to create a space for reflection on how to operate the system more efficiently and safely, taking full advantage of the attributes of the new technologies that will be incorporated.

The seminar will address issues related to the flexibility attributes of the system, operational challenges, the role of new technologies, and the regulatory adjustments necessary to move toward a more adaptable, reliable, and sustainable electrical system.