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Chile: Solar prices likely to keep falling
April 3, 2017
Chile’s next auction in October will see prices continuing to fall, according to the company who set records for lowest solar PPA last year. “There is an enormous amount of competition in this market and none of the fundamentals have changed from the previous auction,” Inigo Malo, Solarpack Corp. Tecnologica’s manager for the Andean region, […]
Mexico: Construction begins on largest PV plant in Latin America
March 30, 2017
Italian power provider Enel announced it has started construction on the largest PV plant on the American continent, the 754 MW Villanueva project, which is located in the Mexican state of Coahuila. The company is investing €650 million in the project, which is scheduled for completion in the second half of 2018. The project is […]
El Salvador: Contracts signed for 170 MW of solar and wind
March 29, 2017
El Salvador’s power distributors have this week signed contracts for the winning projects in the country’s renewable energy auction, which was held by the government in January. Among the projects are four PV plants with a combined capacity of 119.9 MW. The auction ended with an average price of $51.48/MWh. This is the lowest price […]
Mexico: PPA signed for 110 MW solar PV project
March 29, 2017
The Mexican gas and power provider Ienova, a unit of U.S. natural gas utilities holding company Sempra Energy, announced it has signed a 20-year PPA for a 110 MW PV project in Mexico with local steel manufacturer Deacero. According to a press release from the company, the Pima Solar project will require an investment of […]
Montserrat renewable energy project signals action by government and local utility
March 28, 2017
On Friday, March 24, the Government of Montserrat through the Ministry of Communications, Works and Labour (MCWL) and Montserrat Utilities Limited (MUL) released a Request for Qualifications for interested parties to qualify for the Engineering, Procurement and Construction for a 1 megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) and battery storage project. The solar project is part […]
Cayman’s first utility scale solar plant to be commissioned next month
March 24, 2017
A previously delayed 5 MW solar project in Cayman has resumed progress and construction will begin next week. The array, abutting Pease Bay Pond on a former vegetable farm, will begin producing 5 megawatts of electricity for the Caribbean Utilities Company by late April, completing a project delayed since October, and launching Cayman’s first industrial experiment […]
Dominican Republic inaugurates 1MW solar facility at airport
March 23, 2017
President Danilo Medina inaugurated a 1MW solar PV plant at a facility at the Las Américas International Airport last week. It is the second PV plant at an airport in the country. The other project, in operation since 2013, is a 1.5 MW PV plant at Cibao Airport. The solar plant was installed at the […]
Enel Green Power moving to less capital-intensive business model
March 21, 2017
Enel Green Power (EGP), the renewable energy subsidiary of Italian power utility Enel, was able to considerably increase its installed solar capacity in 2016. After publishing its financial results for 2016, the press office of the Enel group provided pv magazine with specific figures on last year’s solar business. According to these numbers, EGP installed […]
Solar energy coming to Barbuda
March 20, 2017
Antigua and Barbuda is moving closer to its goal of 20 per cent renewables by 2020 with a new 150 kWp solar PV project. Clean energy provider PV Energy Limited will install the PV system in the west of Barbuda, on the Antigua Public Utility Authority’s (APUA) property next to the airport. The grid-connected 150kWp […]