Tenders for concessions in geothermal exploration areas, the tendering of fiscal lands for wind and solar projects, and resources for pilot projects such as biomass, solar, tidal, wind, were increased significantly. In addition, and in a very important way, in its period it was conceived, announced and initiated to work for the interconnection of the SIC with the SING, which is the main electrical transmission work of the last decades in the country and that has facilitated the development of the NCRE and energy exchange between what was the SIC and the SING. Following the 2011 Magallanes protests in January he resigned after supporting a price increase for natural gas, a resource whose price was heavily subsidized in a region where natural gas reserves were estimated to last a few years given the high levels of consumption and lack of investments in exploration and new production wells. His resignation allows the government to revert the price increase, which leads the way to an increasing energy shortage in the region.