Chile’s Environmental Assessment Service
has approved Mainstream Renewable Power’s (Dublin, Ireland) 245 MW
Escondido photovoltaic (PV) project, making it one of the largest
approved solar projects in the Atacama region.
It will involve an investment of USD
290 million to construct and is split into two solar parks located in
the communes of Copiapó and Tierra Amarilla: Parque Solar Río Escondido
and Parque Solar Valle Escondido.
“The north of the country benefits from some of the
highest levels of solar radiation in the world, and Chile has yet to
properly promote and develop its solar energy resource,” comments
Mainstream’s General Manager in Chile, Bart Doyle.
The Río Escondido solar park will be located in an
area of approximately 422 hectares, 58 kilometres from the city of
Copiapó. It will have 550,368 PV panels and will have a capacity of
145 MW of power.
The Valle Escondido solar park, located
49 kilometers from Copiapó, will have 382,000 PV panels located on an
area of approximately 360 hectares, with an installed capacity of
100 MW.
The new PV plant will be connected to the grid
through a transmission line from the Río Escondido substation, located
inside the park, which will be shared between both projects to reduce
the environmental impact by halfsource: http://www.solarserver.com
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