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Innergex Powers Up 50MW Chile Battery Storage
Chile has it's first utility-scale battery storage facility with Innergex's 50MW/250MWh Salvador battery facility. With daytime energy storage & peak pricing, it will benefit from capacity payments & generate US$8.2m (CAN$11.4m) in its first full yr. Financed via green bonds in 2022.
Oct 31, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Chile, South america, Innergex
Wartsila wins Chile storage contract
8MW battery system will be co-located with Colbun's 230MW Diego de Almagro solar farm
Nov 30, 2021 // Storage, Chile, South america, Wartsila, solar farm, Christoph Perathoner
Reden, Natixis close financing on up to 100MW of PV projects in Chile
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.
Oct 10, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Natixis, Engie, Chile, South america, Reden
Atlas Renewable Energy's BESS Delivers Innovative Energy Solution
Atlas Renewable Energy's groundbreaking 15-year agreement with Emoac in Chile marks a pivotal moment in the country's energy transition, addressing renewable energy curtailment and sustainability challenges.
Mar 22, 2024 // Storage, Chile, South america, Atlas Renewable Energy
Sonnedix gets 18MW Chile solar duo
The independent power producer has completed the purchase of 2 PV plants from Distributed Power Partners
Dec 21, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Sonnedix, Axel Thiemann, Chile, South america
Spain’s OHL to build utility-scale PV in Chile for Austrian developer
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.
Sep 13, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Chile, utility-scale PV, South america, ohl, clean capital energy, cce
Grenergy seals 200MW solar supply agreement in Spain
Grenergy Renovables has penned a solar supply agreement with Spanish utility Galp, its first such agreement in the country.
Nov 26, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, Galp, pv power plants, solar pv, Europe, Grenergy Renovables
Sonnedix gets solar project in Chile from Andes Solar
Independent solar energy producer (IPP) Sonnedix has actually acquired a 160MW solar photovoltaic (PV) project in Chile from Andes Solar, a renewable resource designer and also fitter.
Nov 26, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Sonnedix, Axel Thiemann, Chile, South america, solar PV plant, Andes Solar
Chile ushers in Latin America's initial thermosolar plant
Chile on Tuesday inaugurated Latin America's first-ever thermosolar energy plant, a huge complicated called Cerro Dominador in the Atacama desert that gives a boost to the country's quest for carbon-neutrality by 2050.
Jun 14, 2021 // Plants, Thermal, Chile, South america, Latin america, Sebastian Pinera, thermosolar plant
Solarpack completes 43MW dual solar purchase in Peru
Solarpack has strengthened its foothold on the Peruvian solar market by closing on the full acquisition of two up-and-running plants it deployed seven years ago.
Sep 10, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, pv power plants, South america, Latin america, esslatam, Peru
PV plant supplying grid supplementary services in Chile
Chile's National Electric Coordinator has actually approved authorization for a brand-new First Solar PV project to supply supporting grid services on a commercial basis. The setup has actually done much better than gas generator innovations.
Aug 21, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Grids, First Solar, Chile, South america, PV Power Plant, Carlos Barria
Sungrow Crosses 1 GW Mark for PV Inverter Shipments in Chile
Sungrow has struck the 1 GW mark for PV inverter collective shipments to Chile, and also it took starting point in the delivery position in Chile this year.
Nov 3, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Inverters, Sungrow, Chile, South america, International, milestone, Shipments, Gonzalo Feito
BP Ventures invests in Oz solar tech company
Financial investment will assist 5B Holdings accelerate commercialisation of its system for accelerating panel installations
Dec 15, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Australia, Oceania, Chris McGrath, BP Ventures, Johnathan Stone
The globe's sunniest PV testing field
French power titan Engie recently commissioned a solar module screening facility in Chile's Atacama Desert, an area which has the globe's highest possible solar radiation. Thore Müller-- head of bifacial PV R&D and solar solutions at Engie Laborelec, spoke with pv magazineabout the benefits of screening panels, inverters and cleansing systems in warm, dry settings.
Jul 15, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Engie, Chile, South america, Thore Müller
Chile, the land of mines, leads the way in solar power
The Latin American country has far exceeded its goal to get to 20% of energy production from renewable resources by 2025
Nov 7, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Chile, South america, Javier Jorquera Copier













