Cuyumillaco 450 MWh battery enters environmental permitting stage in Chile
The $200 million solar-plus-storage site is planned in the Maule region.
The Cuyumillaco solar-plus-storage project, featuring a 90 MW/450 MWh battery energy storage system and 90 MW of solar generation capacity, has entered Chile’s Environmental Impact Assessment System.
Environmental paperwork for the project indicates the park, planned in the Maule region, will feature around 146,000 photovoltaic panels, each with 690 Wp ouput and mounted on single-axis trackers.
Chucao Solar’s $200 million project, will have a booster substation; a 1.4 km, 66 kV underground energy evacuation line; and a connection point to the National Electric System through a substation which connects to two 66 kV lines on the Nueva Cauquenes – Parral line.
From pv magazine LatAm.
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