#Chile

PowerChina has finished building a 480 MW PV plant in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, an area recognized for having the world’s highest solar radiation levels.

Chile: Efacec’s customers Abengoa and Cobra have signed with the company two contracts for the execution of two substation projects, worth $1.6 M (€1.5 M).

Chile: China Southern Power Grid (CSG), ISA Inversiones Chile and Transelec won the execution rights for the Kimal-Lo Aguirre HVDC power transmission project.

Chile, Antofagasta: With discontinuation of coal power plants in the country by 2040, renewable sources become a key step in reaching a sustainable energy grid.

Chile, Santiago: Chile’s environmental evaluation service SEA has approved construction of a $140 M transmission line.

Chile, Río Escondido: Mainstream’s first solar farm in Latin America, Río Escondido, has been successfully connected to its transmission network.

The scope of the project awarded to Abengoa includes the construction of a 500 kV double-circuit transmission line, called Nueva Tineo – Nueva Ancud

Chile, Bío-Bío, Los Ángeles: Abengoa is awarded the construction of a substation and the sectioning of three 220 kV double-circuit lines in Chile.

CEN has published the schedule for tendering the $1.3B Kimal-Lo Aguirre line, the most significant transmission project in the country’s pipeline.

Chile: Sterling and Wilson Solar Ltd (SWSL) has signed an order worth $62.6 M in Chile, the company said in a release.

Spanish renewable energy and infrastructure company Elecnor has secured a contract to build a 185MW wind power facility in Chile.

Chilean environmental evaluation service SEA has received an environmental impact declaration for a solar photovoltaic park )planned capacity of 227.46 MWp).

ABB Power Grids’ digital transformers will improve reliability of major new wind and solar power projects in Chile, raising access to reliable and clean energy.

Abengoa is selected to carry out the engineering and construction of the infrastructure that will evacuate the energy from the Mesamávida and Los Olmos wind farms.

Chile: Chilean electricity transmission company Transelec was awarded four projects that will require combined investment of $227 M.

Elecnor has filed an EIS with Chile’s environmental evaluation service for a $50.5 M transmission project. The line will connect Melipilla with Viña del Mar.

Chile will tender $398 M in new transmission projects as part of a push to expand transmission capacity in the power grid

Peru: A planned new transmission line is expected to produce around $20 M in savings initially each year for Chilean and Peruvian grids, a figure that would edge up and eventually reach $50 M per year in savings.

Chile: ABB will deliver solar string inverters and two MV transformer stations for a 9 MW capacity solar power park in the Maule region of central Chile.

Chilean president Sebastian Pinera officially inaugurated the 753 km Cardones-Polpaico transmission line that will enable the transport of renewable energy from the regions in the north to consumer points in Chile’s south.

Spanish group Abengoa SA was hired by Chilean forestry and timber company Arauco to carry out the transmission works for a biomass plant.

Chile:The central grid operator CDEC-SIC launched a tender for three transmission projects requiring an estimated USD 192 million in investment.

Chile, Santiago: Chile’s transmission company Celeo Redes, a subsidiary of Spanish energy and infrastructure group Elecnor, has been awarded an electricity transmission contract by Chile’s central grid operator CDEC-SIC.

Germany: Siemens has tested four 250 MVA/500 kV transformers with special and very high partial discharge requirements for the customer the electricity transmission company Transelec, Chile.

Spain: Abengoa, a Seville-based international company supplying technology solutions for sustainability in the energy and environment sectors, has been awarded the engineering and construction contract for two new power transmission lines, a substation and the extension of an existing line in Chile, worth more than $180 million.

France, Levallois-Perret: Alstom has been awarded a €260 million ($278 million) contract by Transmisión Eléctrica del Norte (TEN), a subsidiary of Chile-based electric company E-CL, to supply four turnkey substations for Chile’s first interconnection system, the Mejillones – Cardones Transmission line.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has secured a contract worth around $25 million from Colombia’s Interconexión Eléctrica S.A. E.S.P. (ISA) to deliver 54 shunt reactors.

USA, Washington DC: The U.S. State Department and the Clean Energy Ministerial’s SEAD Initiative are collaborating with Chile’s Ministry of Energy (MoE) to design energy efficiency policies which will expand its appliance energy efficiency programme first launched in 2005.