05.05.2015: Enel Green Power Chile Ltda, the Chilean subsidiary of Italian renewable energy company Enel Green Power SpA (EGP), which is itself part of the Enel group, has started construction on a 97 MW PV power plant in northern Chile. The Carrera Pinto solar power plant will be constructed in the municipality of Copiapo, in the province of Atacama, at a cost of about $180 million. The project is owned by Parque Solar Carrera Pinto S.A., a unit Enel Green Power Chile Ltda. The company expects to complete the plant in the second half of 2016. This is not the first large-scale PV project EGP is building in northern Chile. In January, the company completed three PV projects with a combined capacity of 136 MW in northern Chile. Two of the projects, the Lalackama and Chañares solar plants, are located in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert and have a capacity of 60 MW and 40 MW, respectively. The two plants had an aggregate required investment of $180 million and rely on modules from Chinese manufacturer JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. EGP has also completed the final 4 MW phase of the 36 MW Diego de Almagro solar project. The plant is separated into two solar fields and is located in the municipality of Diego de Almagro, in the Atacama region. The plant relies on 225,000 thin-film modules manufactured at EGP's own factory in Catania, Sicily. Italian inverter manufacturer Siel SpA provided the inverters for the third project. © PHOTON |
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