Chile has passed new regulations around capacity market payments to energy storage, coinciding with a major project announcement from CJR and Sungrow.
EPC firm CJR Renewables and inverter and battery energy storage system (BESS) manufacturer Sungrow will together deploy a 200MW/880MWh BESS project at a solar PV plant in Chile for owner Atlas Renewable Energy.
Atlas has enlisted CJR as the primary contractor for both the civil and electrical works for the project, which will be built at Atlas’ existing 244MWp Sol del Desierto solar PV plant in Antofagasta, northern Chile (pictured above).
Some 320 battery energy storage system (BESS) units from Sungrow will be installed, to go on 320 newly constructed foundations, and 40 foundations which will house power conversion system (PCS) units. It brings the total BESS installations in Chile for CJR, an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm, to 523MW, it said in its Linkedin announcement last week (30 May).
Note that the BESS will be an independent project from Sol del Desierto with its own power purchase agreement (PPA), separate to solar PV plant’s. In March, Chilean energy and forestry company COPEC agreed with Atlas to buy the power from the BESS under a 15-year deal.
