Before it happens

One month ago, the administration of CAP, a Chilean steel and iron producer with a US$ 3.6 billion market value, announced the beginning of negotiations with Mitsubishi Corporation to enable this last one to invest in its closely held mining subsidiary CMP. It so...

Colocalización de antenas

Estimado señor Director, Una manera constructiva de solucionar la controvertida colocalización de las antenas es separar su aspecto competitivo de su correspondiente pago, sin condicionar uno al otro sino que vaya cada uno por vías paralelas. Para asegurar lo primero,...

Costo energético

Señor Director, Los precios de venta de la energía eléctrica por parte de los generadores se están consolidando alrededor de los US$ 90 por MWh, incluyendo energía y potencia, bajo los precios de los combustibles actuales. En Estados Unidos dichos precios están hoy...

Jumpstarting Chilean salmon industry

A huge crisis has fallen over this industry for the last twelve months. In 2008 it exported US$ 2.47 billion and almost 445.000 net tons of fish. Half of them – in tonnage – were based on the Atlantic salmon; the other half, on the trout and Pacific salmon. The...

Chilean nuclear energy: diversification and competition

Average US retail residential prices of electricity, including taxes, have been for the last 12 months to March 2009 US$ 11.58 cents per KWh, whereas in Chile that figure has been around US$ 20 cents or over. Since 1960 and in real terms, US retail residential prices...