Future Energy Summit (FES) returns to Chile with the fourth edition of one of the most influential energy-sector events in Spanish-speaking Latin America. The summit will take place on 26–27 November at the Intercontinental Hotel in Santiago and will feature former energy ministers, current government officials and high-level technical leaders from across the Southern Cone.
The event will be streamed live on the official Future Energy Summit YouTube channel. Among the top-level sessions, particular attention will go to panels co-organized with the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE), which will address institutional, regulatory and financial challenges for the region’s energy transition.
On the first day, the closing panel will bring together former Chilean energy ministers Claudio Huepe (in office March–September 2022), Juan Carlos Jobet (June 2019–March 2022), and Carolina Zelaya, former Acting Executive Secretary of the National Energy Commission (CNE).
The discussion — titled “Public Policy Priorities for Chile’s Next Government” — will be moderated by Andrés Rebolledo, current Executive Secretary of OLADE and also a former Chilean energy minister. The session will focus on the strategic steps Chile needs to take to advance toward a cleaner, more resilient energy matrix.
A key contextual element: FES Chile will take place just ten days after the presidential and congressional elections, providing a timely forum to assess the energy proposals of the political groups competing to lead the country from 2026 to 2030.
The second day will revolve around battery energy storage systems (BESS) under the theme #ExperienciaBESS. The program begins with a VIP networking breakfast featuring Luis Felipe Ramos Barrera, Chile’s current Undersecretary of Energy.
Panel 1 — “Energy Strategies of Southern Cone Governments” — will bring together:
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Mauricio Bejarano, Vice Minister of Mines and Energy of Paraguay
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Agustín González, Energy Efficiency Manager at Uruguay’s National Energy Directorate
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Antonio Milanese, Undersecretary for Energy Transition and Planning of Argentina
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Moderated once again by OLADE’s Andrés Rebolledo.
The summit coincides with a milestone in Latin America’s energy storage deployment. The region, including the Caribbean, has already surpassed 3 GW of installed storage capacity, driven mainly by electrochemical technologies that account for 60% of the total.
Chile is leading this regional trend with more than 1,800 MW of operational BESS capacity, expected to exceed 2 GW by January 2026, four years ahead of its official 2030 target.
Including projects under construction, Chile’s installed BESS capacity could reach 8.6 GW by 2027, far surpassing the country’s long-term target of 6 GW by 2050.
Energy storage, renewable energy integration, regulatory modernization and investment in clean technologies will be central themes throughout FES Chile — an event positioned as a key platform for technical debate, political analysis and private-sector engagement.
Major renewable energy developers, service providers, investors and government authorities will gather in Santiago to outline the trends and decisions that will shape the Southern Cone’s energy transition in the years ahead.
