The Chilean Ministry of Energy has opened a public land bidding auction seeking 13GWh of standalone energy storage projects.

Renewable energy developer and operator Innergex has inaugurated a 50MW/250MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at a solar PV plant in Chile.

The government of Chile will launch a bill this year to procure large-scale energy storage systems for commissioning in 2026 totalling US$2 billion of investment, on top of 5GWh already being sought for 2027-28.

The Chile arm of global energy firm AES Corporation is looking to build another large co-located battery energy storage system (BESS), this time with a capacity of 2,710MWh.

NEC Energy Solutions, the distributed energy division of Japanese information tech company NEC, has commissioned a 2MW / 2MWh battery energy storage system in Chile.