Enel Green Power announced the inauguration of the La Colonia photovoltaic park in Chile with an installed capacity of 10.8 MW in the form of a Small Means of Distributed Generation (PMGD), its first renewable project within the Metropolitan Region.
Efigen announces it has signed an agreement with Power Construction Corporation of China (PowerChina) in partnership with Bosk Capital for the development and sale of a 238 MW solar farm located in northern Colombia in an area of approximately 470 hectares.
EIG Global Energy Partners, a leading institutional investor to the global energy sector headquartered in Washington, D.C. announced the inauguration of the Cerro Dominador solar complex in Chile’s Atacama Desert following a successful synchronization with the Chilean National Electrical System.
ACCIONA announced it has begun construction on the Malgarida I and II photovoltaic complex in Chile with a combined capacity of 238MWp, which will be ACCIONA’s seventh renewable energy facility in the country.
According to a new research by Oslo-based consultancy Rystad Energy, Latin America is emerging as a green powerhouse, with some of the strongest renewable capacity growth expected globally in the coming years. With auctions already adopted throughout Latin America, Rystad Energy expects the region’s 49 gigawatts (GW) of renewable capacity will skyrocket to 123 GW by 2025, with the biggest increases coming from Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Argentina.
Atlas Renewable Energy, a renewable energy company in Latin America along with British mining company Anglo American Plc, a global mining company, announced the signing of the largest solar energy purchase and sale contract in Brazil with an investment of 881 Million Brazilian Reals.
Spanish engineering and renewable energy company Abengoa announced that the Cerro Dominador solar thermal project, owned by EIG Global Energy Partners and built by Abengoa and ACCIONA in the Atacama Desert in Chile, has just achieved one of the key milestones of its development before its entry into operation: the raising and installation of its solar receiver at 220 meters high, which was placed in the highest part of the central tower of the complex, which is surrounded by 10,600 heliostats.
Spanish infrastructure, energy and telecommunications group Elecnor, S.A. announced it has been awarded the turnkey construction of a 120 MW solar PV plant for the Dominican Republic’s largest power generation company, Empresa Generadora de Electricidad Haina (EGE Haina).
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, and the North American Development Bank (NADB) announced it will provide US$200 million in green loans to Infraestructura Energética Nova S.A.B. de C.V. (IEnova), to finance four solar power plants with a total capacity of 376 MW across Mexico.
Spanish solar developer Solarpack Corporación Tecnológica, S.A., announced the closing of the acquisition of 90.5% of the solar photovoltaic projects Tacna Solar and Panamericana Solar with Tawa Solar Fund LP and the rest of the Projects’ shareholders, for US$ 51.5 million.
Mexican multinational bakery product manufacturing company Grupo Bimbo, announced the inauguration of a self-sufficient solar roof built on top of the warehouse of its company IDEAL, S.A. in Chile, which is the largest of its kind in both Chile and South America.
Italy-based energy infrastructure developer Enel Group, announded it has began the construction of its new solar photovoltaic (PV) plant, Campos del Sol, through its renewable subsidiary Enel Green Power Chile. With approximately 382 MW of installed capacity, the facility is the largest solar plant currently under construction in Chile.
