14 DAY TRIAL // Recent news from Chile says that the country's Environmental Evaluation Service has given the green light to plans to build two solar power plants in the Antofagasta Province.
By the looks of it, the construction of these two facilities is part and parcel of the country's plan to improve on its ecological footprint by having 20% of its energy demands met by renewables alone by the year 2020.
Clean Technica tells us that the two solar power plants will have a combined energy generation capacity of little over 181 MW. Thus, Project Pampa Sur is expected to generate some 90.9 MW, whereas Project Pampa Norte will have an output of 90.6 MW.
The plants are to be built by renewable energy developer Igenostrum, and will both be made up of solar panels with an electricity generation capacity of 240 – 280 watts each.
Igenostrum has not yet released any information concerning when the plants will go online, and how much it will cost to build them.