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Renewables specialist Enel Green Power Chile, part of utility team Enel Chile, has inaugurated a 10.8-MW distributed generation (DG) solar farm in the Santiago Metropolitan area, a project it supplied in partnership with Spain-based PV developer IM2 Solar.

Colbun and Polpaico Soluciones are constructing the largest self-consumption solar plant in Chile, equipped with 15,000 bifacial solar modules and trackers. The 9.9-MWp project will generate 21.5 GWh of electricity annually from 2024. Efizity is building and operating the solar farm, to complement their 2018 renewable power agreement.

Partners have actually currently started construction of 80MW portfolio making up 9 sites southern of Santiago

Atlas Renewable Energy has landed a long-term PPA agreement with utility Engie Energía, which will help support the development of a 230MW-plus solar farm in Chile.

Latin American power business AES Andes SA claimed that it has marketed a 49% risk in its renewable energy affiliate in Chile to money manager Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) for USD 441 million (EUR 373.5 m).

London-based renewables investor Actis has raised US$1.23 billion for a new investment fund destined for existing infrastructure assets in emerging markets, starting with its own 100MW PV plant in Chile.

Programmer is buying the projects found in five areas across the country from Solek

Iberdrola and Prosolia Energy have secured approvals from the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) to build Europe's largest photovoltaic plant in Santiago do Cacém near Sines. It will produce clean and cheap energy to cover the annual needs of 430,000 households.

Acciona has signed a supply deal with Chilean water utility Empresa Concesionaria de Servicios Sanitarios SA (ECONSSA Chile) that will fulfil the energy needs of a water desalination plant set to come online in the Atacama desert next year.

Hedonova has invested $16m in the system which uses CRYOBattery technology

Engie Chile has actually been granted legal rights to create two hybrid projects in Chile that will certainly incorporate solar, wind and battery storage as well as have actually an incorporated capability of 1.5 GW.

The World Climate Summit in Santiago de Chile, set to be held in just a few weeks, has just been cancelled. Against a background of social protests in the country, concerns have recently grown as to whether logistics and security could be guaranteed for the event. Nevertheless, social problems and environmental protection must not be played off against each other: Both are closely linked to the economic paradigms of recent decades.

Reden Investments Chile and Natixis have successfully closed senior facilities totaling US$96.4 million for an up-to-100MW portfolio of PV projects in Chile.

Sonnedix has marked the launch of construction works for a large-scale solar installation in Chile’s Atacama desert, with a view to power up the plant late next year.

Clean Capital Energy (CCE) has picked a Spanish firm with a track record in Latin American solar to build a utility-scale project in Chile’s centre-north.