Acciona Energía has won a contract to supply renewable energy for the main facilities of Aguas Chañar, which handles the production and distribution of potable water and the collection, treatment and disposal of wastewater in Atacama, Chile.
Under the terms of the power purchase agreement (PPA), which began Feb. 1, the renewable energy will cover over 70% of Aguas Chañar’s needs in the Atacama region.
All of the energy supplied by Acciona will come from the company’s renewable installations in Chile, where it currently operates a 246 MW solar photovoltaic plant (El Romero Solar) in the Atacama Desert and a 45 MW wind farm (Punta Palmeras) in the region of Coquimbo. It is now building a second wind farm with a capacity of 183 MW in the Araucanía Region.
Aguas Chañar provides services to more than 270,000 people in nine municipalities in Atacama and operates 13 potable water treatment plants and nine wastewater treatment facilities.
