Construction begins on Chile's first solar-storage project, including LatAm's largest battery

• AES Gener has actually broken ground on a 112MW/ 560MWh battery energy storage project in Chile, said to be Latin America's largest such center to day.

The system, also hailed as Chile's first solar-plus-storage project, will can saving energy generated from close-by solar and also wind centers for up to 5 hours.

AES Gener, the regional subsidiary of multinational power generation and circulation firm AES Corporation, will certainly develop the project, to be coupled with 253MW of renewable generation. That will include the 180MW Andes Solar II B project, under construction in Antofagasta, Chile.

Andes Solar II B will certainly be constructed with 10MW of modular, premade solar PV panels and 170MW of bifacial solar PV panels of the kind AES Gener has already deployed in the 80MW Andes Solar II A project which has already begun construction.

The solar energy to be integrated right into the national electrical power system with the batteries will be built on range of mountains in Antofagasta in the Atacama Desert, appreciating a mix of high solar irradiance at fairly reduced temperature levels.