Clean Energy Solutions

With its excellent solar resources and a liberal electricity market, Chile has seen a rapid rise of PV power plants recently. JinkoSolar Holding Co. (JKS), a global leader in the solar PV industry, will be manufacturing and transporting 197,000 high efficiency PV Solar modules for the first of the two projects — the Lalackama PV 60-megawatt plant located in Chile's Atacama Desert region.
While there has been increasing awareness of the strides made in cutting the cost of renewable energy technologies (solar for example energía solar has fallen 90% in cost over the last ten years), the argument is still often being made that coal is the cheapest form of generation.

Pablo Burgos, chief executive of Solarpack said, The Granja project will be one of the most efficient and competitive solar PV plants in the world and will generate more than 340 GWh of clean electricity every year, contributing to the decarbonization of the country's energy matrix".
With both awareness of and respect for the environment, Viña Viu Manent has implemented a renewable energy production system by installing three photovoltaic plants (solar panels) to take advantage of natural resources for the generation and consumption of clean energy.
Establishing a policy framework to accelerate market competitiveness, supporting the needed confidence for investments in local technology advancement and manufacturing capacity, facilitating large-scale solar grid integration, implementing new financing and business models, expanding international collaboration to provide accelerated learning and knowledge transfer to Chile, and improving training, education and awareness for solar energy technologies are among the priority policy actions to be taken shortly.

Instead of solar panels, the plant will use 10,600 huge mirrors heliostats that span 140 square metres and follow the sun by means of a dual-axis tracking system that will reflect solar rays and heat to a 243-metre tower which will bear a resemblance to Sauronâ tower in the Lord of the Rings movies.
Although the fines are in some cases cheaper than the cost of compliance, the policy has been quite successful, and energy generation from RES has met or even surpassed the defined quota of 5%. Renewable energy generation reached 7% of the country's total energy generation in 2012.