Generadoras de Chile unanimously elects Jaime Pino as new board chairman

This is an automated translation of the original release published in Spanish

PRESS RELEASE from Generadoras de Chile
January 2, 2024

Generadoras de Chile, an association that brings together the main electricity generation players in the country, unanimously elected Jaime Pino, general manager of Innergex, as the new chairman of the Board of Directors for 2024-25, and Pablo Villarino, manager of Corporate Affairs of Engie, as vice president for the same period.

Pino is an industrial civil engineer from Universidad Diego Portales and has a master's degree in Business Administration from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is currently the general manager of Innergex, a renewable energy generation company with Canadian capital. “I will put my greatest dedication and effort into supporting the management of the administration of Generadores de Chile to consolidate our fundamental role as articulators between the energy industry and the Government, in order to achieve as soon as possible the fruits that dialogue and strengthening the discussion with all actors in the energy sector, supporting the formation of good public policies, advances in regulation that provides certainties and regulations in accordance with the new times,” said the new chairman.

Generadoras de Chile also thanked María Teresa González for her efforts as chairwoman of the board during the last four years, a process in which the association has promoted an intense energy agenda to support the development of the sector.

“It has been a tremendous experience, with important advances in the sector, and with even greater challenges that we as a group and also as a country must address. Climate change is an urgency that we must face from all sectors together. My support to Jaime in this new task and my total gratitude to the association team for the commitment and contribution they make to sustainable development in one of Chile's main industries," said María Teresa González, general manager of Statkraft Chile.

Camilo Charme, CEO of Generadoras de Chile, said “we are in a particularly challenging period for the electricity generation and storage sector, which is why the board of directors of Generadoras de Chile, together with the support of Jaime as chairman, has proposed to work with maximum impetus on those challenges that lie ahead in the short and medium term, with the purpose of establishing a roadmap that helps promote those enabling conditions so that the energy transition in Chile can arrive adequately and in a timely manner to all sectors of our country.”