Canadian Solar to construct 45MW Colombian battery

• Project in Barranquilla was awarded in a public tender carried out by the Ministry of Energy as well as Mine

Canadian Solar has actually won the legal rights to create a 45MW battery storage project in Colombia.

The project was granted in a public tender introduced by Colombia's Ministry of Energy and Mines, through its affiliate UPME, the Mining and Energy Planning Unit.

The facility, which lies in the city of Barranquilla in the north of nation, will certainly consist of a 45 megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery energy storage space system.

It is anticipated to get to industrial operation by June 2023.

The project has been approved with a 15-year income structure with the Colombian federal government and is indexed to the nation's inflation or producer consumer price index.

Canadian Solar chairman and chief executive Shawn Qu claimed: "We are extremely proud to have actually won this project in the first pure storage space tender in Colombia.

" This is also our initial energy storage project in the country and the Latin America region.

" The project award is testimony to our global visibility not simply in solar however additionally in the energy storage company, and even more solidifies Canadian Solar's position as a market leader in clean energy.

" We will certainly continue to carry out on our worldwide energy storage space growth approach and look forward to offering more flexible, reliable and clean energy to our consumers throughout the world."