The blooming of Chilean energy storage
BY PRISCILLA OBILANA: Chile briefly led the world in batteries in 2009. That’s when the world’s first commercial grid-scale battery storage system was turned on in the Atacama Desert, in the north of the South…
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Energy storage key to Chile solar project
The incorporation of energy storage was key to Chile’s selection of solar thermal technology in a project that has gained Clean Technology Fund (CTF) financing, Energy Storage Report has learned. The Chilean Ministry of Energy last month…
AES to give Chilean power plant 20MW battery storage
AES Energy Storage and AES Gener, the company’s Chilean subsidiary will integrate 20MW of advanced battery-based energy storage with a 544MW thermal power plant in the North of the country. The project will allow the…