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Even though by 2017 the regional carbon intensity is very similar to the one observed by 1990, this index has showed high variability, mainly in the last three years when the ACI of LAC fell from 285 gCO2\/kWh in 2015 to 257.7 gCO2\/kWh. To understand what happened with the evolution of the carbon intensity in the region, in this paper a Logarithmic Mean Divisia for Index Decomposition Analysis (IDA-LMDI) is carried out to identify the accelerating and attenuating drivers of the ACI behavior along five periods. The proposal outperforms existing studies previously applied to LAC based upon a single period of analysis. Key contributions are introduced by considering the type of fuel used in power plants as well as specific time-series of energy flows and CO2 emissions by country. Results reveal structural reasons for the increase of the ACI in 1995\u20132003 and 2008\u20132015, and intensity reasons for the decrease of the ACI in 1990\u20131995, 2003\u20132008 and 2015\u20132017.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/en13092328","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,8]],"date-time":"2020-05-08T03:45:20Z","timestamp":1588909520000},"page":"2328","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Multitemporal LMDI Index Decomposition Analysis to Explain the Changes of ACI by the Power Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1990\u20132017"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3344-9555","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Paulo M.","family":"De Oliveira-De Jesus","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Los Andes University, Bogot\u00e1 111711, Colombia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5650-6463","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"John J.","family":"Galvis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Los Andes University, Bogot\u00e1 111711, Colombia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2551-9517","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Daniela","family":"Rojas-Lozano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Los Andes University, Bogot\u00e1 111711, Colombia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3174-9703","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jose M.","family":"Yusta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Mar\u00eda de Luna 3, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"World Meteorological Organization (2020, January 15). 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