Chile inaugurates its largest standalone battery
The project, in the Antofagasta region, is backed by a 15-year power purchase agreement signed by the EMOAC energy trading
Solar arrays at Grenergy's Oasis de Atacama project in Chile. Image: Grenergy Grenergy has raised financing for the fourth phase of a solar-plus-storage project in Chile set to feature 11GWh of battery storage capacity when completed.
It is connected to 8 MW/32 MWh of battery storage. Chile has enacted the Renewable Energy Storage and Electromobility Law, which will compensate standalone storage projects for injecting electricity into the grid and being available at times of peak demand.
Attendees at the Energy Storage Summit Latin America hosted by our publisher Solar Media in October last year heard that with solar PV in Chile—one of the sunniest countries in the world, particularly in the Atacama Desert region—at risk of rampant curtailment, the addition of batteries is being seen as a necessary mitigation of that risk.
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