Today JinkoSolar announced that has supplied 122 MW of PV modules to U.S.-based PV developer Pattern Energy for its El Conejo solar project in Northern Chile. El Conejo will be one of the largest PV projects built to date in the nation, which is the largest solar market in Latin America.
El Conejo has secured a 22-year power purchase agreement with a mining company, and when completed in the second half of 2016 will supply 65% of the electric needs of the Los Pelambres copper mine.
With its enormous demand for power, Chiles mining industry has been an attractive target for developers since the early days of the nations solar market. However mining companies have also been tough to negotiate with, and contracts such as Patterns can take a long time to secure.
The El Conejo project will be located in the Antofagasta Region of Chile, and will be connected to the nations SIC (central) grid.
At the end of March Chile had installed 1.1 GW-AC of solar PV projects, and more than 2 GW are under construction. New projects continue to be announced, and earlier this week Chilean President Michele Bachelet, SunPower and Total announced a contract for a 100 MW solar PV project which will supply 42% of the power for the metro in Santiago.
This content is protected by copyright and may not be reused. If you want to cooperate with us and would like to reuse some of our content, please contact: editors@pv-magazine.com.
Popular content
Share
By submitting this form you agree to pv magazine using your data for the purposes of publishing your comment.
Your personal data will only be disclosed or otherwise transmitted to third parties for the purposes of spam filtering or if this is necessary for technical maintenance of the website. Any other transfer to third parties will not take place unless this is justified on the basis of applicable data protection regulations or if pv magazine is legally obliged to do so.
You may revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future, in which case your personal data will be deleted immediately. Otherwise, your data will be deleted if pv magazine has processed your request or the purpose of data storage is fulfilled.
Further information on data privacy can be found in our Data Protection Policy.