Gran Solar-Total Eren tie-up wins Galapagos solar-storage project

• A partnership between Spanish PV professional Gran Solar as well as French independent power producer Total Eren has actually been granted a 25-year concession in Ecuador's tender for the building and procedure of the Conolophus solar-plus-storage system on the Galapagos Islands, the Ecuadorian ministry of energy and also non-renewable natural resources announced on Sunday.

The Gran Solar-Total Eren consortium was the only one left standing in the over-a-year lengthy tender procedure after 4 other pre-qualified prospective buyers left of the race in the past sending envelopes with technical deals.

The Spanish-French duo won the right to develop as well as operate a 14.8-MW solar PV plant, a 40.9-MWh battery storage space system as well as transmission facilities that will link the islands of Baltra as well as Santa Cruz. Also part of the project is the release of a micro-grid central control system that will certainly integrate all existing and also future generation and storage space plants in an initiative to lower diesel consumption on the archipelago, the ministry claimed.

The Conolophus project will be know with 100% exclusive capital and pull an investment of USD 63 million (EUR 53.4 m), preacher Juan Carlos Bermeo Calderon said in the ministry's news release.

After being the only prospective buyer to provide the technical offer, the Gran Solar-Total Eren consortium continued right into the following phase as well as presented an economic offer of USD 458.88 per MWh.