- CEO
- Iván Quezada Escobar
- Sector
- Utilities
- Industry
- Electric utilities
- Address
- Santiago Chile
- IPO Date
- Sep 9, 2022
- Business
- CGE Transmisión S.A. is a Chile-based electric utility company primarily engaged in the transmission and transformation of high-voltage electric energy across the Chilean National Electric System (Sistema Eléctrico Nacional - SEN). The company operates through regulated electricity transmission segments, providing high-voltage electricity transmission infrastructure and wheeling services; operation, maintenance, engineering, and construction of high-voltage transmission lines spanning voltages from 66 kV to 500 kV; operation and management of electrical substations, power transformers, switchyards, and reactive power compensation systems; connection, access, and grid integration services for utility-scale renewable energy generation facilities, including solar photovoltaic and wind power installations, as well as conventional thermal and hydroelectric power producers; telemetry, protection, and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) network services; and technical maintenance and modernization of high-voltage electrical assets. Tracing its operational heritage to the founding of Compañía General de Electricidad in 1905 and headquartered in Santiago, Chile, the company maintains transmission assets spanning northern, central, and southern Chile, covering regions from Arica y Parinacota to Los Lagos. CGE Transmisión S.A. operates as an electric transmission subsidiary within the CGE group under the ultimate ownership of State Grid Corporation of China via State Grid International Development Limited. In recent operational developments, CGE Transmisión S.A. has actively expanded its high-voltage network infrastructure through projects designated under the transmission expansion decrees of Chile's National Energy Commission (Comisión Nacional de Energía - CNE), executing substation expansions, line capacity upgrades, and new interconnection facilities to support the evacuation of renewable generation into the national grid. The company has also progressed digital modernization programs across its substations, implemented advanced fault-detection and asset monitoring systems to enhance grid resilience, and executed local debt financing programs on the Santiago Stock Exchange to fund capital investments in national energy transition and transmission reliability infrastructure.