EIG, a leading institutional investor to the global energy sector and one of the world’s leading infrastructure investors, today announced the inauguration of the C solar complex following a successful synchronization with the Chilean National Electrical System.
June 9, 2021
The plant, built by a consortium formed by Abengoa and Acciona for EIG Global Energy Partners, has a capacity of 110 MW and is the first of its kind built in Latin America.
June 9, 2021 - Yesterday, June 8, the Cerro Dominador solar thermal plant was officially inaugurated. It has been built by a consortium formed by Abengoa and Acciona and in which Abengoa acts as a constructor and as a technological partner, for the company EIG Global Energy Partners, in the Chilean town of María Elena, in the Atacama Desert (Antofagasta region), one of the areas with the highest solar radiation in the world.
The European Union , KfW Development Bank and KfW IPEX-Bank contribute a total of EUR 113 million towards the financing of the Cerro Dominador project in northern Chile, through the combination.
WORLD / AMERICAS
By AFP Published: Jun 09, 2021 05:13 PM
Sightseers enter the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. The spectacular scenery of the desert is known for resembling the surface of the moon.Chile on Tuesday inaugurated Latin America s first-ever thermosolar energy plant, a vast complex dubbed Cerro Dominador in the Atacama desert that gives a boost to the country s quest for carbon-neutrality by 2050.
In an area exceeding 700 hectares, 10,600 mirrors surround a 250-meter-high tower topped with a receiver onto which the Sun s rays are reflected.
Molten salts in the receiver absorb the heat and are then used to generate electricity - up to 110 megawatts - by means of a steam turbine.