About

Our Purpose

The Latin America Energy Portal is a project of Global Energy Monitor (GEM), an international organization that has been tracking global energy infrastructure since 2007.

GEM’s researchers collect comprehensive data on tens of thousands of energy projects, providing regularly updated, reliable information about these projects and their global impacts.

Founded on principles of transparency and accountability, GEM believes that the data we gather should be rigorously researched and accessible to everyone. The Portal aims to improve access to GEM’s Latin American and Caribbean research by making it available in Spanish, Portuguese, and English on a single, dedicated platform.

 

What the Portal Offers

The Latin America Energy Portal provides a region-wide snapshot of energy infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean, through interactive maps, summary data, and thousands of wiki pages.

The heart of the portal is a tracker map that offers easy access to GEM’s research on specific projects throughout the region: wind and solar farms, oil, gas, coal, bioenergy, hydroelectric, geothermal and nuclear power plants, oil and gas pipelines, oil and gas extraction sites, LNG terminals, coal mines, and more.

Each project on the map is linked to a wiki page that provides details about the project’s history, status, capacity, and ownership, along with background info such as environmental, health, safety, and human rights impacts.

 

How to Use the Portal

There are two main ways to explore the Portal:

Explore the Map

Use the tracker map to see every project GEM tracks in Latin America and the Caribbean. You can filter the map by infrastructure type and/or project status, search for projects by name, country, ownership, start year and other criteria, or zoom in for a closer look at specific countries or projects of interest. Click on any project to see its associated wiki page, which includes links to original source documents such as government datasets, environmental impact studies, company financial reports and news coverage from local and international media.

Explore Resources

Use the Explore Resources panel to download data, explore government and NGO reports, read country energy profiles, and find additional wiki pages focused on region-specific energy topics.

 

Collaborate

GEM regularly expands and updates the Portal through our own ongoing research and via collaboration with academics, journalists, researchers, and activists in Latin America and the Caribbean.

We continuously strive to improve the Portal’s coverage of regional energy issues and showcase the work of local organizations involved in the sustainable energy transition.

GEM welcomes your input in improving this website. If you’d like to contribute, click here.