Risk Management for Energy Infrastructure: Comparative Analysis Between Chile and Colombia

The energy supply infrastructure risks involve both natural and anthropogenic events which are disastrous for energy systems. In this work was carried out a comparative analysis of the risk management of the energy infrastructure for Chile and Colombia. Given its geographic location, these countries are exposed to natural disasters. A critical review of vulnerability and resilience parameters to seismicity and mass removals hazards were contrasted. The main results show that the System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI) in 2014 was and 30 hours for Chile and Colombia, respectively. It was found that the management of risk in Colombia is a secondary issue of public policies Only earthquakes and floods dangers have some regulations, there is lack of infrastructure risk assessment and disaster prevention is basic. After the earthquake of 2010 MW = 8.8 in 2010, Chile has strengthened the national risk management in terms of institutional, scientific knowledge, early warning systems and operation schemes.