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The solar park in Pallihue was built in the direct neighbourhood of an existing wind farm.
South America

Goldbeck Solar commissions 20 megawatts of solar park capacity in Chile

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Goldbeck has built the two solar parks in Chile with bifacial modules. This increases solar power production to 43.5 gigawatt hours per year - a real advantage in sunny Zetralchile.

Within the JCM scheme approximately 40% of the PV panels in a Chilean PV project can be subsidized.
Project development:

Sharp expands its project business in Chile

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Sharp Energy Solutions Europe expands its PV business in Chile, along with multi-million US Dollar of JCM subsidies for PV panels.

Solar parks:

Blue Elephant adds new solar parks to its Chile portfolio

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The Hamburg-based solar and wind farm operator Blue Elephant Energy has recently contracted four more PV projects in Chile with a total capacity of 44 megawatts.

Chile:

CCE supports communities with 30 photovoltaic kits

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Clean Capital Energy (CCE) provides 30 PV kits to support sustainable energy generation in private households in the region of La Huella in Chile.

Chile sees a solar boom, especially of large-scale solar parks.
Latin America:

Construction of 160 MW solar plant in Chile starts

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Sonnedix announced the start of construction of Sonnedix Meseta de los Andes, a 160 MW solar PV plant located in the commune of Calle Larga, in central Chile’s Valparaiso region.

The combination of solar and cryogenic energy storage allows a fully renewable grid-scale energy supply using proven technologies.
Energy storage:

Latin America’s first cryogenic long-duration energy storage project

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Highview Enlasa, the joint venture between Highview Power and Energía Latina S.A. (Enlasa), is developing the first liquid air long-duration energy storage project in Chile.

44 per cent of the electricity used in Chile already comes from renewable energies.
South America:

SMA receives order for large-scale project in the Atacama Desert

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SMA is supplying 46 Medium Voltage Power Station for the 220-megawatt Diego de Almagro Sur PV power plant in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The project will see South American power generation company Colbun SA expand its portfolio in the field of renewable energies.

NextEnergy Capital’s third institutional solar fund, NextPower III ESG sees additional acquisitions.
Financing:

NextEnergy Capital: Expanding institutional solar fund

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NextEnergy Capital announces two further solar PV acquisitions in Portugal and Chile totalling 53.8 MW  in its NextPower III ESG institutional solar fund.

The solar investment opportunities in Latin America are huge. The 123 MW Granja PV plant was grid connection in Chile in 2020.
New report:

Huge solar investment opportunities in Latin America

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A new report of SolarPower Europe reveals the huge solar investment opportunities and the huge solar potential in Latin America.

Flexible: The cleaning systems from SunBrush mobil can be mounted on any standard tractor.
Solar panel cleaning:

Cleaning a 103 MW PV power plant in the Atacama Desert

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SunBrush mobil delivers its new cleaning device TrackFlex for PV tracking systems to a solar park in Chile.

Central inverter INGECON SUN 1690TL B650 of Ingeteam.
Chile:

Ingeteam supplies a 108 MW PV project in the Atacama desert

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Ingeteam supplies solar inverters and provides O&M services for a PV project of more than 100 MW in Chile.

Highview Power’s long duration energy storage system, paired with renewable energy sources, are equivalent in performance to thermal and nuclear power.
Cryogenic energy storage:

Joint venture to develop giga-scale cryogenic energy storage projects in Chile and Latin America

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Highview Power, expert in long duration energy storage solutions, has entered into a joint venture agreement with Energía Latina S.A.-Enlasa, one of the largest backup power generation provider in Chile, to co-develop giga-scale cryogenic energy storage projects in Chile and other Latin American markets.

Located in the Atacama Desert, the Granja PV plant was connected to the grid 10 months ahead of the starting date for its PPA.

LONGi supplied high-efficiency modules for Granja PV plant in Chile

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Developed, built and operated by Spanish group Solarpack, the Granja PV plant is located in Chile's Atacama Desert and began feeding electricity into the country’s National Grid on March 2, 2020. Solar technology company LONGi, as the sole module supplier, provided 123 megawatts of its monocrystalline PERC modules for the project.