Elecnor has won the USD 117.2 million (equivalent to approximately EUR 110.8 million) contract to build a solar PV plant in Chile. This facility, with a capacity of 115MWp, will be in the municipality of Til Til, to the north of Santiago, in the Metropolitan Region.
The contract was awarded by Santiago Solar, whose shareholders are Andes Mining & Energy and EDF Energies Nouvelles, and zt encompasses the engineering, supply, assembly and start-up of the plant and the high-voltage evacuation infrastructure via a GIS substation connected with a high-voltage line.
The project will be financed by a syndicate of banks headed by Crédit Agricole in New York.