Friday 20 August 2010

Minera El Tesoro Mining Group And Soitec Establish Cpv Solar Energy Pilot Plant For Mining Operation In Chile

FRANCE & CHILE: Minera El Tesoro (MET), split of one of the largest mining groups in Chile, has built the first hint plow in South America along with Soitec Solar technology, installing four of its water supply efficient concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) systems at a peninsula in Chile's Sierra Gorda province to work renewable energy for a greatly copper-mining canvass.

In expansion to achieving the foremost energy-generating orderliness, Soitec's CPV systems smudge very in shape glass-glass technology, further familiarly fit for hot and tedious environments. This publish offers the least bring shame on and doesn't need any rinse for cooling, making it all right fit for this installation trendy the driest resign in the world.

The four CX-S420 systems installed for MET use Soitec Solar's leading-edge Concentrix CPV technology and two-axis tracking systems to accept a amount installed measure of 64 kWp. In expansion to conveyance electricity for the site's data center, this installation serves as an helpful research and objection frame for MET by the use of modern and environmentally amiable solar technologies, expected to diminish carbon route and optimize energy payment in hot, tedious locations along with lofty straight set irradiation (DNI).

To that abandon, on May 22 MET and Soitec signed a addendum of complexity to acquire the understanding gained from this hint plow to further their respective diplomacy of increasing dissipation projects along with CPV technology in Chile.

"We are very fulfilled to embrace the disobey to agree with MET in its relentless assist to authorize solar power and a top-quality sustainable and efficient warehouse of energy to Chile," understood Fabio Mondini, VP, effortless wing along with Soitec's Solar Crack.

"This objection peninsula is an helpful development in our commercial pains in a section everyplace we embrace lofty goal. Chile's energy attraction is swelling and necessity target to a replication of the installed measure in the also few years, further in the northern split of the pastoral, which has the foremost DNI and elastic mining-sector electricity attraction."

"Similar to our suite trendy the Atacama resign, one of the foremost irradiation regions on state, we are very fulfilled to be involved along with one of the CPV leaders on this hint installation and to embrace the disobey to use Soitec's CPV technology in real-world language, generating clean and sustainable power to our mining operations," understood Martin Brunette, wet behind the ears controller at Minera El Tesoro.

"As the parade units feed energy to our mine's at the heart of clear, we are investigation Soitec's technology in the harshest language, and at the extremely appointment, assessing the endanger of incorporating renewable and clean energy on a copious scale in the appearance."

In 2012, Chile's renewable energy charge Centro de Energias Renovables (CER) published its Place of birth Hammer Plans ENE 2012-2030, in which it announced the give authorization to of top-quality than 3.1 GW in solar-energy projects to back-to-back issues such as practicable power shortages, export tax increases for fossil fuels, Chile's colossal beneficial arrival and increasing attraction for electricity. As a pastoral, Chile has the world's foremost solar irradiation and is unprocessed to be the peninsula of a selection of of the world's first large-scale solar projects.

CPV is the peak efficient technology in the photovoltaic strive, achieving fashionable module efficiencies of 30 percent - input amplify that of conventional photovoltaic technologies. Soitec's CPV modules use a shatterproof glass-glass publish and Fresnel lenses to excursion sunlight 500 era onto small, water supply efficient multi-junction solar cells. By by the use of dual-axis tracking, Soitec's systems work lofty, lasting power output because of begin hours.

In expansion, the company's systems are imperishable to energy losses in lofty temperatures and score submissive cooling imperfect rinse employment, offer competitive advantages in regions along with lofty DNI such as northern Chile. Soitec has installed its CPV technology in 18 countries to meeting.