Chile solar and wind curtailment reaches record 2.68 TWh in January-July

Curtailment is becoming one of Chile’s central power-market issues as solar and wind plants increasingly produce more energy than the grid can absorb in high-output periods. The trend strengthens the commercial case for batteries, flexible demand, and transmission reinforcement in the country’s northern solar zones. For project owners and investors, the record figure is a reminder that headline installed capacity matters less if energy cannot be delivered into remunerative demand windows.