{"id":202183,"date":"2024-12-22T12:26:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T18:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/tesla-megapacks-to-back-energy-facility-in-this-south-american-country"},"modified":"2024-12-22T12:26:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T18:26:04","slug":"tesla-megapacks-to-back-energy-facility-in-this-south-american-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/tesla-megapacks-to-back-energy-facility-in-this-south-american-country","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Megapacks to back energy facility in this South American country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-megapacks-to-back-energy-facility-in-this-south-american-country.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tesla\u2019s Megapack grid-scale storage systems have been selected for yet another solar energy and storage project, this time set to be installed in Chile.<\/p>\n<p>Chilean energy storage developer Colb\u00fan has announced plans to install over 200 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/tesla-highlights-megapack-hawaii-coal\/\">Tesla Megapacks<\/a> as part of the 228 MW\/912 MWh Celda Solar project in the northern part of the country, as detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colbun.cl\/en\/corporate\/press-room\/news-and-press-releases\/detail\/2024\/12\/18\/colbun-y-tesla-firman-contrato-para-suministro-de-baterias-por-228-mw-para-proyecto-celda-solar-en-camarones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a> shared this week. The site will be constructed in the Camarones, Arica and Parinacota region, and the company estimates the total cost to be around $260 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnergy storage will play an increasing role in the Chilean electricity system, allowing solar energy generated during the day to be accumulated and supplied to the system at night,\u201d writes Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Escobar, Colb\u00fan CEO, as translated into English from Spanish. \u201cOur energy stored in the reservoirs in the south complements perfectly with the energy that we will store in our batteries in the north, thus having a safe, diversified and competitive offer for our clients from Arica to Puerto Montt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla\u2019s Megapack grid-scale storage systems have been selected for yet another solar energy and storage project, this time set to be installed in Chile. Chilean energy storage developer Colb\u00fan has announced plans to install over 200 Tesla Megapacks as part of the 228 MW\/912 MWh Celda Solar project in the northern part of the country, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}