Electricity and gas
Electricity, gas and air conditioning supply: a billion UF of annual sales made by thirty thousand people, some 34,000 UF each. It reaches fewer communes than any other branch — 166 of 346 — and has lost a larger share of its formal employment since 2005 than any other: almost a quarter of it.
Maps exactly onto CIIU Rev. 4 section D.
Territorial distribution
251/346 communesShaded by how much of each commune's own formal payroll this sector is — not by headcount, which would draw the same map of where people live for every sector.
Counted at the firm's registered address, not the workplace. SII assigns a company's whole payroll to the commune of its tax domicile, so a head office in Santiago carries the shifts worked everywhere else. Read this as where the sector files, and the count below as where its workers live.
Communes with at least 200 workers in the sector, so a village with one firm does not top the list.
What the branch is made of
3 divisions · 9 activitiesA section of twenty-one parts says what this page is called. The register files firms two levels below it, and those parts are not one economy: generación, transmisión y distribución de energía eléctrica and suministro de vapor y de aire acondicionado share a letter and little else. Each division has a page of its own.
- Generación, transmisión y distribución de energía eléctrica 23,668
- Fabricación de gas; distribución de combustibles gaseosos por tuberías 4,789
The list stops where 2 divisions have accounted for 94% of the branch's employment. The other 1 are together 6.5% of it and are drawn above, each as its own tile: every division of the register.
Two ways to count the jobs
SII 2024 · Casen 2024Series 2005–2024
2005–2024Who the sector runs on
SII 2024Artificial intelligence
estimate · 2026-05By region
| Region | Workers | Of the sector | Of its own payroll | Living here | Firms | Since 2005 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitana | 22,287 | 73.3% | 0.4% | 21,058 | 2,565 | −34% |
| Los Lagos | 2,985 | 9.8% | 0.8% | — | 155 | +154% |
| Valparaíso | 1,271 | 4.2% | 0.2% | 6,573 | 229 | +5% |
| Antofagasta | 1,219 | 4.0% | 0.5% | 2,699 | 59 | +6% |
| Biobío | 823 | 2.7% | 0.1% | 3,763 | 168 | +63% |
| Ñuble | 358 | 1.2% | 0.2% | — | 57 | +228% |
| Maule | 340 | 1.1% | 0.1% | — | 159 | −5% |
| Araucanía | 320 | 1.1% | 0.1% | — | 121 | −17% |
| Los Ríos | 247 | 0.8% | 0.2% | — | 65 | +125% |
| O'Higgins | 181 | 0.6% | 0.0% | 2,894 | 123 | +166% |
| Magallanes | 180 | 0.6% | 0.2% | — | 29 | +37% |
| Tarapacá | 72 | 0.2% | 0.1% | — | 46 | −39% |
| Arica y Parinacota | 60 | 0.2% | 0.1% | — | 27 | −29% |
| Coquimbo | 37 | 0.1% | 0.0% | — | 111 | −77% |
| Aysén | 36 | 0.1% | 0.1% | — | 24 | +44% |
| Atacama | 8 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1,345 | 40 | −93% |
"Workers" is SII's count at the firm's registered address; "living here" is Casen's count of employees of this branch who live in the region. They are different measurements of different things and the columns are read side by side, not subtracted. A dash is a cell with fewer than 30 sampled workers.