#Chile

The Horizonte Wind Farm, located 130 km northwest of Taltal and considered the largest in Chile with 140 wind turbines and 816 MW of installed capacity, was inaugurated on March 20.

Grenergy will expand its Oasis de Atacama battery project in Chile with two new phases through the acquisition of 1 GW of solar power.

WEG will provide a large transformer for a wind farm in the northern region of Chile, being developed by an unnamed global player in renewable energy.

Eight wind turbines were energised in May, having contributed 1.3 GWh to the grid since May 13.

PowerChina has finished building a 480 MW PV plant in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, an area recognized for having the world’s highest solar radiation levels.

Chile: Efacec’s customers Abengoa and Cobra have signed with the company two contracts for the execution of two substation projects, worth $1.6 M (€1.5 M).

Chile: China Southern Power Grid (CSG), ISA Inversiones Chile and Transelec won the execution rights for the Kimal-Lo Aguirre HVDC power transmission project.

Chile, Antofagasta: With discontinuation of coal power plants in the country by 2040, renewable sources become a key step in reaching a sustainable energy grid.

Chile, Santiago: Chile’s environmental evaluation service SEA has approved construction of a $140 M transmission line.

Chile, Río Escondido: Mainstream’s first solar farm in Latin America, Río Escondido, has been successfully connected to its transmission network.

The scope of the project awarded to Abengoa includes the construction of a 500 kV double-circuit transmission line, called Nueva Tineo – Nueva Ancud

Chile, Bío-Bío, Los Ángeles: Abengoa is awarded the construction of a substation and the sectioning of three 220 kV double-circuit lines in Chile.

CEN has published the schedule for tendering the $1.3B Kimal-Lo Aguirre line, the most significant transmission project in the country’s pipeline.

Chile: Sterling and Wilson Solar Ltd (SWSL) has signed an order worth $62.6 M in Chile, the company said in a release.

Spanish renewable energy and infrastructure company Elecnor has secured a contract to build a 185MW wind power facility in Chile.

Chilean environmental evaluation service SEA has received an environmental impact declaration for a solar photovoltaic park )planned capacity of 227.46 MWp).

ABB Power Grids’ digital transformers will improve reliability of major new wind and solar power projects in Chile, raising access to reliable and clean energy.

Abengoa is selected to carry out the engineering and construction of the infrastructure that will evacuate the energy from the Mesamávida and Los Olmos wind farms.

Chile: Chilean electricity transmission company Transelec was awarded four projects that will require combined investment of $227 M.

Elecnor has filed an EIS with Chile’s environmental evaluation service for a $50.5 M transmission project. The line will connect Melipilla with Viña del Mar.

Chile will tender $398 M in new transmission projects as part of a push to expand transmission capacity in the power grid

Peru: A planned new transmission line is expected to produce around $20 M in savings initially each year for Chilean and Peruvian grids, a figure that would edge up and eventually reach $50 M per year in savings.

Chile: ABB will deliver solar string inverters and two MV transformer stations for a 9 MW capacity solar power park in the Maule region of central Chile.

Chilean president Sebastian Pinera officially inaugurated the 753 km Cardones-Polpaico transmission line that will enable the transport of renewable energy from the regions in the north to consumer points in Chile’s south.