Three utility scale battery power storage initiatives alongside photo voltaic crops have been introduced final week in Chile. Enel is constructing a 67 MW/134 MWh battery, whereas CJR Renewable and Uriel Renovables are planning 200 MW/800 MWh and 90 MW/200 MWh initiatives, respectively.
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three completely different builders have introduced completely different large-scale battery power storage (BESS) initiatives collocated with photo voltaic farms in Chile.
Enel Chile, the native subsidiary of Italian power firm Enel, says it’s going to deploy 67 MW/134 MWh batteries on the El Manzano solar energy plant. The photo voltaic undertaking with a capability of 99 MW is positioned within the city of Tiltil, in Chacabuco Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. The photo voltaic plant is unfold over 185 hectares of land and has 162,000 bifacial monocrystalline panels of 615 W and 610 W.
In a separate press launch, Portuguese EPC contractor CJR Renewable introduced that it has been contracted by America-based Atlas Renewable to construct a 200 MW/800 MWh BESS. The system can be paired with the 244 MWp Sol del Desierto photovoltaic plant, which has been working since 2022 and is positioned within the city of María Elena, Tocopilla Province, within the Antofagasta area.
CJR Renewables will function the primary contractor for the civil and electrical works of the undertaking with 320 battery items supplied by the Chinese producer Sungrow. “With this undertaking, we’ve got reached 523 MW of BESS services in Chile,” mentioned Raúl Pérez, enterprise and improvement supervisor of CJR Renewables.
With 582,930 photo voltaic panels distributed over 479 hectares, Sol del Desierto generates about 714 GWh per 12 months. The PV plant operates beneath a 15-year energy buy settlement (PPA) signed between Atlas Renewable Energy and Engie Energía Chile, the Chilean unit of French power big Engie, which provides 550 GWh of electrical energy per 12 months.
In one other separate improvement, Spanish developer Uriel Renovables introduced that it has obtained preliminary approval for the 90 MW Quinquimo photo voltaic farm collocated with the 90 MW/200 MWh BESS facility. The building of this undertaking is predicted to start in 2025 in an space positioned 150 km north of Santiago de Chile, within the Region of Valparaíso.
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