Solarpack has started operating two 10.5 MWp PV plants, Calama Solar 1 and Puerto Seco Solar, in the Calama region of Chile’s Atacama Desert.

Calama Solar 1, which started operating in March 2017, will generate 30,600 MWh of clean energy a year. Puerto Seco Solar, meanwhile, began operating on June 30. It is the company’s sixth solar plant in Chile and will add 30,600 MWh a year to the more than 130,000 MWh being generated annually by Solarpack’s plants in the region. The electricity from the plants will be fed into the Sistema Interconectado del Norte Grande (SING) grid.

Solarpack already has another four solar plants operating in Chile: Calama Solar 3, which was the first industrial-scale solar plant in South America, with a total installed power of 1.1 MWp; Pozo Almonte Solar 2 (8.1 MWp) and Pozo Almonte Solar 3 (17.3 MWp), which produce 13% of the energy used by the Doña Inés de Collahuasi mining company; and Pozo Almonte Solar 1, which boasts 10,5 MWp and is already connected to SING.