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Brazilian energy company Neoenergia SA (BVMF: NEOE3) launched on Wednesday its very first renewable resource hybrid complex in Brazil, combining wind and also solar plants with an overall capacity of concerning 600 MW.

The clean power share in Colombia's power manufacturing was up to 80.75% in February from 85.98% the month previously, as the country's complete hydroelectric output come by 4.77%, according to the current figures launched by national grid operator XM Compania de Expertos en Mercados.

Chilean electric utility AES Andes on Friday unveiled strategies to construct a 379-MW solar farm co-located with a 542-MW battery energy storage space system (BESS) in the Atacama Desert.

A consortium developed by Brazilian cooperative Creral and also regional engineering firm Mil Engenharia has actually taken into operation a 1.2-MWp floating solar power plant in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais.

The Brazilian Development Bank, or BNDES, has authorized a BRL-90-million (USD 17m/EUR 16m) funding to support 19 MW of dispersed generation (DG) solar power projects possessed by Helexia, a unit of France's Voltalia SA (EPA: VLTSA).

France's Voltalia SA (EPA: VLTSA) revealed on Wednesday it has commissioned 4.9 MW of solar capacity in midwestern Brazil as part of a broader bargain to provide clean power to a unit of telecommunication giant Telefonica SA (BME: TEF).

Brazil's Regional Bank for the Development of the Far South, or BRDE, has approved a BRL-20-million (USD 3.8 m/EUR 3.6 m) credit line to support a 4.3-MW solar power project created by farming and industrial cooperative Cotrijal in the south of the nation.

PASH Global and also ERIH Holdings have actually become part of a JV to supply 100MW of solar-battery capacity in the Latam country

Peru's ministry of power as well as mining on Wednesday claimed it had actually granted concessions for 3 new renewable energy projects with a potential to bring around 523.8 MW of combined capacity.

Brazil's Rio Grande do Norte state federal government announced on Thursday it held a conference with two European financiers thinking about adding green hydrogen production to a project for a 1,043.5-MW wind as well as solar hybrid complicated in the northeastern state.

Brazilian renewable resource firm Ibitu Energia stated recently its 252-MWp solar power complex in the northeastern Piaui state has actually reached complete commercial operation.

YPF Luz and Pampetrol have signed an agreement to jointly work on the development of two solar projects which could generate up to 80 megawatts of solar energy in Argentina's La Pampa province.

Argentine power firm Genneia has signed a loan agreement to obtain up to USD 85 million (EUR 80.3 m) to finance the building of wind as well as solar projects in the nation.

Spanish Renewable Energy Firm Sells 32.5 MWp of DG Solar Projects in Chile

Chilean electric energy AES Andes on Monday submitted an environmental effect study (EIS) for a hybrid wind and solar energy project collocated with a proposed 623.5-MW battery energy storage space system (BESS).