The $270m project, which was built by Enel Green Power Chile, holds a long-term power purchase agreement
Situated in the municipality of María Elena in the Antofagasta Region, about 1,300 km north of Santiago, the project is capable of generating more than 400 GWh of energy per year.
Electricity produced at the park can power nearly 198,000 households in Chile. The plant will reduce over 198,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year.
The energy produced at the plant will be delivered to Sistema Interconectado del Norte Grande, Chile’s Northern Region transmission network.
In Chile, Enel currently has 430MW of operational PV parks, 364MW of wind farms and 92 MW of hydro capacity. It also has 300MW of projects in progress.
Upon completion, the projects bring the company’s total installed capacity in Chile to nearly 1,200MW.
The company said among these projects is Cerro Pabellón, which will have an installed capacity of 48MW, will be South America’s first geothermal plant.
GTM Research anticipated that about 4GW of PV capacity will be installed in Chile by 2020.
Image: Enel Green Power Chile completes construction of Chilean solar plant. Photo: Courtesy of Naypong/FreeDigitalPhotos.net.
