Bolivia’s largest solar plant just received an injection of funds from French Development Agency (AFD) for €11.5m financing. The funds are expected to be used to leverage additional financing for the 50MW Planta Solar Fotovoltaica Oruro. The plant is scheduled to come online in 2018. Bolivia’s state utility, Empresa Nacional de Energía (ENDE) has just announced it has received bids for construction of the project after issuing a tender in April 2016.
Interested developers are: Consorcio Solairedirect – Isotron, Power China Guizhov Engineering Corp., Powerchina Zhangnan Engineering , Sacyr Fluor, TSK Electrónica y Electricidad S.A., Prodiel S.L. – Ingeniería y Construcciones Santa Fe S.A – Ensacruz Ltda., Grupotec y Asociados, CCC – Yingli Consortinm, Efacec – Ingeniería e Sisternas, Sumec, Sterling and Wilson PVT Ltd., Zhuhai Singyes Green, Consorcio Fotovoltaico Oruro, APCA – Gildemeister LSG Beteiligungs Gmbtt., Enerray y Asociados, and TBEA.
In Bolivia only one PV plant has been built to date, a 5 MW PV project in the Pando Department. This project is connected to a microgrid.
