The Senate of Chile has unanimously passed major legislation which will incentivise the deployment of energy storage and electric vehicle (EV) technology.

AES Andes, a utility operating in South America owned by AES Corporation, has revealed plans to convert 560MW of thermal power generation into a molten salt-based energy storage plant in Chile.

Chile looks set to pass major legislation incentivising the deployment of energy storage, after a draft bill passed the Senate yesterday.

A couple of weeks ago, Energy-Storage.news met with leading figures from the energy storage industry at RE+ 2022.

Canadian Solar was behind a successful bid in Chile’s July auction with 253MWp of solar PV and 1GWh battery energy storage.

Chilean utility Colbún has submitted plans for a solar-plus-storage project with a 1.2GWh battery energy storage system (BESS)

Independent Power Producer (IPP) Innergex Renewable Energy has ordered two battery energy storage system (BESS) projects from Mitsubishi Power Americas for co-located sites in Chile, South America.

Chile has published details of its latest power auction set to take place later this year that will contract 5,250GWh per annum for 15 years.

Energy technology company Wärtsilä has announced battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in two new markets for the company, with orders from customers in Chile and Belgium.

Efforts by the Chilean government and US-headquartered energy infrastructure company AES Corporation will boost the Latin American country’s installed base of battery storage.