SunEdison LLC (Beltsville, Maryland, US) has signed an agreement with mining and steel company CAP SA (Santiago, Chile) to build a 100 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in Chile's Atacama Desert.

The plant will comprise more than 300,000 MEMC Silvantis monocrystalline PV modules mounted on SunEdison trackers, and produce an estimated 15% of the CAP Group's energy needs. SunEdison expects to complete the first phase of the plant by the end of 2013.

"We are very pleased to add the CAP group to our customer portfolio," stated SunEdison GM for EMEA, Latin America and North Asia Pancho Perez.

"We have worked to deliver an innovative solution to CAP designed to reduce their energy costs while deriving up to 15 percent of their electricity supply from clean energy. This initiative furthers our leadership position as a solar power producer in Chile and across the rest of Latin America."

SunEdison to manage PV plant

When complete, SunEdison will manage the PV plant through its Renewable Operations Center (ROC). SunEdison expects the plant to produce 270 GWh of electricity in the first year of operations.

SunEdison expects to utilize CAP steel for the production of its trackers. SunEdison is a subsidiary of MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (Beltsville, Maryland, US).

2013-02-01 | Courtesy: SunEdison | solarserver.com © Heindl Server GmbH

Our editorial selection of breaking solar news is published at:
www.solarserver.com/solar-magazine/solar-news/top-solar-news.html