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Bolivia will try and capitalise on its large lithium reserves to set up an industrial ecosystem around batteries and other storage technologies, according to a top government official. The country’s vice president Alvaro García Linera described the government’s plans for a “lithium industrialisation” drive as he attended the opening of a PV project in Oruro, in Bolivia’s west. “Oruro won’t just produce mineral and power but also lithium, lithium hydroxide, cathodes and lithium batteries,” García said as he toured the 50MW first batch of a 100MW PV complex. The installation in the Caracollo municipality, the work of EPC firm TSK Group, has been promoted as the largest solar project in Bolivia's history. The first connected 50MW half boasts 57,000-plus panels, down from the 150,000 or more the 100MW the overall installation will feature once it is up and running. According to the government, the first 50MW phase required US$42.6 million in investment. The project has been mostly backed by French development money, with the EU and Bolivia as smaller, secondary contributors.

Concentrated in layers of brine beneath this expanse, 3800 metres up in the Bolivian Andes, is more lithium than anywhere else on the planet. Until 20 years ago,

Hycsa, which currently operates in Mexico, El Salvador, Colombia, and Bolivia, has three main business lines including construction, extraction and

from those financial savings. The batteries will be found at or near: Bolivia, N.C. with Brunswick Electric Maysville, N.C. with Carteret-Craven Electric

Triangle, an area in the Andes consisting of the borderlands of Argentina, Bolivia as well as Chile. The location hosts about half of the globe's lithium

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in oceans and seas. So, the most significant reservoirs are in the sea beds. Bolivia has 21 Million tonnes of Lithium reservoirs, making it the largest pool in the

of that, Chile is likewise among three South American countries-- along with Bolivia as well as Argentina-- whose borders intersect in the highly-elevated salt

3,000 km², making them the third largest on the planet after Uyuni in Bolivia (10,582 km²) and Salinas Grandes in Argentina (6,000 km²). This area