Tender introduced for 14.8 MW/40.9 MWh of solar+ storage in Ecuador

• The Conolophus job, to be built on Santa Cruz Island in Galapagos National Park, will certainly reduce regional diesel intake.

Ecuador's Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources has launched a tender for the building of a 14.8 MW/40.9 MWh of solar+storage facility.

The Conolophus job will lower diesel consumption on Santa Cruz Island in Galapagos National Park, along with the nearby island of Baltra.

Interested developers had until Tuesday of this week to pre-qualify for the purchase exercise. The tender final results will certainly be introduced at the end of the initial quarter of 2021.

"The project becomes part of a personal campaign," the federal government claimed in March, when the job was first announced.

It is the third job of its type for the archipelago. Another 1 MW job, consisting of a 2.2 MWh battery storage system, was announced 2 years ago. The project has the financial backing of the Korean Institute of Development and Technology (KIAT).

One more project under the KIAT program is a PV installment with storage, developed by Siemens on Isabela Island. The firm finished among the globe's very first 100%-sustainable island power systems in October 2018. The $13 million project, part of the government's Zero Fossil Fuels on Galapagos policy, features more than 3,000 polycrystalline PV components from Chinese producer Trina Solar, for 952 kW of PV capacity.