HydroChile plans 90 MW Chilean photovoltaic project

Santiago-based company HydroChile S.A. has delivered plans to build the 90 MW Andean Solar Park in the north of Chile, in the Atacama region.

An environmental impact assessment (EIA) has been submitted by the the firm for its planned. Set to be located in the Copiapo Province, in the town of Copiapo, construction is expected to begin in September 2016.

It will require an investment of $158 million and will feed energy into Chile’s Central Interconnected System (SIC). The project will be built across 204.6 acres and will comprise 316,160 PV panels.

Although the country still has a comparatively negligible installed solar PV capacity – around 483 MW – SIC estimates that 1.8 GW will come online this year. See below a list of projects that we have recently discussed on our platform:

• 70 MW Salvador solar photovoltaic project
• 146 MW Laberinto photovoltaic solar plant project
• 69.5 MW Javiera solar power plant project
• 104 MW Conejo Solar PV project
• 112 MW Llanta Solar plant
• 280 MW Alfa Solar plant
• Maria Elena 72.8 MW solar power plant
• 369MW Sol del Desierto PV farm (Antofagasta)