Engie Chile greenlit to build 300-MW solar farm with storage

• Electric utility company Engie Energia Chile SA introduced that it has actually protected an environmental approval to boost the size of a little existing solar farm in northern Chile by 300 MW and also add energy storage.

The approval makes it possible for the company to mount the extra capacity alongside the 6.24-MWp Pampa Camarones solar farm approximately Arica y Parinacota and link around 180 MW of batteries for 5 hrs of storage.

Engie plans to build the Pampa Camarones expansion in two 150-MW phases, and also maintain the very first 6.24-MWp plant at the site.

The new building and construction plan modifies the initial proposal for Pampa Camarones, which was allowed in 2014 as a 300-MW development however one requiring some 1.2 million solar modules. In the new ask for environmental approval, Engie recommended the mount the wanted capacity utilizing a much smaller variety of a lot more powerful modules and also infuse all 306 MW at the site into the grid.