The lowest bid for PV in Ecuador’s latest procurement exercise was $0.0498/kWh. The selected developers secured 25-year power purchase agreements.

Global Energy Services started building Engie’s 87.9 MW Capricornio solar project in northern Chile in 2019. The facility is located in a region that is known as the sunniest part of the world.

Researchers at the National University of La Plata (UNLP) in Argentina unveiled an autonomous robot powered by photovoltaic energy that collects waste and hydrocarbons from water surfaces.

Engie Energía Chile has announced plans to build a 638 MWh energy storage system at the Coya solar plant in Chile’s northern Antofagasta region.

Grid operator ISA CTEEP has started commercially operating a large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) at the Registro substation in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo. The 30 MW/60 MWh BESS is expected to provide backup power to the grid during hours of peak demand in summer.

Enel and Soltec have revealed plans to open a new factory on the grounds of a former thermal power plant owned by Enel’s Endesa unit in Teruel, Spain.

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.

Argentina and Chile are reactivating the Andes Interconnection Line to facilitate the bidirectional exchange of energy. During the day, Argentina will receive 80 MW of solar from Chile, but it will export back 200 MW of natural gas at night.