Bolivia plans first megawatt-scale PV plant
Bolivia plans first megawatt-scale PV plant
By Andy Colthorpe - 08 January 2014, 13:04
The Bolivian government has announced that US$11 million will be invested to build the country’s first megawatt-scale solar power station.
The solar park, which will have a generation capacity of between four and five megawatts, will be built in the Department of Pando, on the border with neighbouring Brazil.
The new installation will be built with the aim of reducing diesel consumption in the department. Electricity from the plant will be supplied to the region’s capital, Cobija, and the Pando municipalities of Porvenir, Bella Flor, Puerto Rico and Filadelfia.
Senior Bolivian minister Juan Ramón Quintana, who holds the third highest ranking office in the Bolivian government after president Evo Morales, and vice president Álvaro García Linera, claimed in a statement to local press that the PV plant would help ensure the continuity of electricity supply to the areas it will serve.
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