Chile: ENEL Adds PV Solar and Energy Storage to Cerro Pabellón Geothermal Plant

Chile, on the Frontier of Innovation (Enel Green Power)

Cerro Pabellón geothermal plant in the Atacama Desert (Courtesy Enel Green Power)

At the Cerro Pabellón geothermal plant in the Atacama Desert, we’ve installed a system that integrates photovoltaic generation with a hybrid energy storage system based on a lithium ion battery and hydrogen storage. This allows us to provide clean energy to the plant’s base camp 24/7.

Cerro Pabellón, the first geothermal plant in all of Latin America, has added a smart grid connected to a renewable plant and to an energy storage system that provides constant electricity to the small village of Ollagüe and, since January 2017, also a hybrid system that integrates a solar plant with a lithium ion battery and hydrogen storage.

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