Energy

Key Facts

—The law. Chile’s Congress cleared a new electricity tariff-protection law on 22 July 2026, sending it to be enacted.

—The key change. When the power fails, distributors — not customers — must pay the compensation owed for outages, reversing an earlier arrangement.

—The scandal. Under a 2024 tariff calculation, 21 of Chile’s 26 distribution companies had passed the cost of those compensations on to users.