ACCIONA to Supply of Electricity to ECONSSA’S Desalination Plant in Atacama – South America The publicly owned company ECONSSA Chile SA, responsible for ensuring access to potable water and wastewater collection and treatment services in nine regions of the country, has awarded ACCIONA the supply of 100% renewable electricity to the desalination plant it is now building in the municipality of Caldera in the region of Atacama. According to the terms of the PPA (Power Purchase Agreement), the contract will come into effect in November 2019, with a long-term horizon to cover all the desalination plant’s electricity requirements. ACCIONA to Supply of Electricity to ECONSSA’S Desalination Plant in Atacama – South AmericaHIWI042019-11-05T17:44:39+01:00
Latin America’s largest desalination plant – Atacama – Chile A project to build the largest seawater desalination plant in Latin America has been approved by the Chilean Environmental Assessment Commission. The plant will be constructed in the Atacama region of northern Chile at a cost of about US$500 million and it will have the capacity to process up to 2,630 litres of water per second. It will also have its own source of solar energy (100MW), a substation and a 600,000m3-capacity water reservoir. (LINK). Latin America’s largest desalination plant – Atacama – ChileHIWI042018-10-08T21:05:30+02:00