Juan Guillermo Walker, CEO and founder of FreePower Group, participated in the panel “Chile’s Renewable Map: Regional Challenges and Opportunities” at RENMAD Chile 2025, one of the country’s most relevant energy sector events.
The conversation focused on the key challenges and opportunities to advance toward a more diverse, sustainable, and decentralized energy matrix. Walker emphasized that Chile holds exceptional energy potential, but its development depends not only on building new plants, but on ensuring their long-term operation and sustainability.
“This requires roads, infrastructure, water, services, and territorial planning. In areas like Magallanes —beyond Punta Arenas, Porvenir, or Puerto Natales— many communities remain underserved and lack basic infrastructure. This opens up an opportunity to revitalize territories left behind after the decline of the oil and gas industry, and turn them into development hubs,” he stated.
He also called for progress on measures such as promoting shared infrastructure, streamlining permitting processes, and fostering effective public-private coordination around key enablers like energy storage and green hydrogen.
The panel featured leading voices from across the sector, including: Carolina Parra, Fundación Chile; Andrea Moraga, Universidad de Concepción; Juan Pablo Purcell, ACCIONA & Nordex; and María José Riquelme, HINICIO
At FreePower, we celebrate these spaces for dialogue that help drive a fairer, more territorially integrated, and innovation-driven energy transition.
