Engie turns on Latin America’s largest storage battery
Engie has deployed a 139 MW/638 MWh battery in northern Chile. The installation consists of 232 containers that are distributed evenly among the 58 inverters of the solar plant. It is equivalent to the average delivery of 200 GWh per year.The storage project is connected to the 181.2 MW Coya solar plant in the Antofagasta region.
The Coya solar plant began operating in April 2023. Engie currently operates another storage system in Arica, Chile. The system, which was commissioned in 2019, is based on lithium-ion batteries and has a capacity of 2 MWh.
