South america

Iberdrola picks Brazil to mount its 1st floating solar project
Spanish electric utility Iberdrola SA (BME: IBE) announced today that its Brazilian unit Neoenergia SA (BVMF: NEOE3) will install a 630-kW floating solar array in the northeastern state of Pernambuco.
Jan 5, 2023 // Plants, Floating PV, Iberdrola, South america, Brazil, floating solar project
United States hedge fund invests in Chilean storage plant
Hedonova has invested $16m in the system which uses CRYOBattery technology
Jan 3, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, Chile, South america, North America, Alexander Cavendish
Spain's Soltec Supplies 738 MW Solar Trackers to Brazilian Solar Projects
Soltec has actually contracted with Canadian Solar and also SPIC for the supply of SFOne trackers. The trackers enable maximized energy effectiveness and lessened visual impact thanks to their lower height compared to various other tracker setups.
Dec 27, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Plants, Markets & Finance News, Canadian Solar, South america, Brazil, Soltec, SPIC, Raúl Morales, ecovoltaics, SFOne 1-in-portrait solar trackers, SFOne trackers
Chile's renewables share drops to 35.7% in Nov
Chile's non-conventional renewables created 35.7% of the nation's electricity in November, reads the most up to date report on the field from Chilean power commission CNE.
Dec 26, 2022 // Technology, Chile, South america
Colombia produces nearly 90% of its power from clean sources in Nov
Colombia produced 89.26% of its electrical power from clean as well as sustainable sources in November, national grid operator XM Compania de Expertos en Mercados stated.
Dec 26, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, South america, Colombia
BNDES to back 4-MW solar project in Brazil
The Brazilian Development Bank, or BNDES, has authorized BRL 28 million (USD 5.6 m/EUR 4.9 m) in financing to support a 4.07-MW solar energy project established by agro-cooperative Copacol in the south of the nation.
Dec 20, 2022 // Plants, South america, Brazil, Solar Project, BNDES
Brazil's Claro inaugurates 6.3-MW solar plant
Brazilian telecom Claro SA has actually linked to the grid a 6.3-MW distributed generation (DG) solar plant in the south of the country.
Dec 19, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, South america, Brazil, PV Power Plant, Claro
Equinor pushes building and construction button on 531MW Brazil project
Mendubim solar site in Rio Grande do Norte is being developed with Scatec as well as Hydro Rein
Dec 8, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Scatec, South america, Brazil, Equinor, Hydro Rein
Big Win For Sungrow In Brazil With 580 MW Solutions for Voltalia
Sungrow, the international market leader in the supply of photovoltaic inverters, is providing the PV inverters for the Serra do Mel 1 & 2 Photovoltaic Complex, owned by French power major Voltalia, with operations in 20 nations. The Brazilian project is located in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. The photovoltaic or pv plants found in Rio Grande do Norte become part of the business's biggest cluster worldwide.
Dec 6, 2022 // Inverters, Sungrow, Voltalia, South america, Brazil, SG350HX, SG3125HV
Brazil's Ceara state gives enviro authorization for 4.6-GW solar project
The Brazilian state of Ceara on Friday approved ecological approval for a 4.6-GW solar photovoltaic or pv (PV) project which will generate power for the production of green hydrogen in Brazil's northeast.
Dec 5, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, South america, Brazil, Solar Project, Ceara
Some 800 MW of solar projects issued enviro permits in Colombia since Aug
Colombian ecological licensing authority ANLA said it had actually approved 4 solar PV projects completing around 800 MW of integrated capacity within the very first 100 days of the Gustavo Petro government, which assumed office on August 7.
Dec 2, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, South america, Colombia, solar farm, ANLA
FRV gets prelim enviro licence for 300-MW solar project in Brazil
Madrid-based clean energy developer Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) said on Wednesday that it has actually been given a preliminary ecological licence for the growth of a 300-MWac/327-MWp solar park project in Brazil.
Dec 1, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, South america, Brazil, frv, Solar Project
Chile's Colbun cuts ribbon at 230-MW solar farm with BESS in Atacama
Chilean energy Colbun SA on Monday inaugurated its 230-MW Diego de Almagro Sur solar farm with an 8-MW battery power storage space system (BESS) in Chile's Atacama area, as well as stated that it going to add the storage space component to most of its renewable resource projects in the future.
Nov 29, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Chile, South america, atacama, BESS, solar farm, Colbun
Enel Americas to invest USD 5bn mainly in Brazil, Colombia by 2025
Latin American empire Enel Americas SA (BCS: ENELAM) claimed on Monday that it will certainly invest USD 5 billion (EUR 4.84 bn) in its electricity company in the area under the 2023-2025 strategic plan, and also straight most its investments to Colombia as well as Brazil.
Nov 29, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, South america, Brazil, Colombia, Enel Americas
Solarpack granted loan for 252 MWp of solar projects in Colombia
Spanish solar power developer Solarpack has been provided an elderly loan amounting to close to COP 656 billion (USD 133.6 m/EUR 128.5 m) to construct two solar farms in Colombia.
Nov 25, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, South america, Solarpack, Colombia, solar projects