Yingli Solar is to supply 240 MW of solar panels for Latin America’s two largest hybrid solar PV and CSP power plants. Both projects, located in northern Chile, will be equipped with 110 MW of CSP and 17.5 hours of thermal storage. Yingli is providing o

Yingli Solar is to supply 240 MW of solar panels for Latin America’s two largest hybrid solar PV and CSP power plants. Both projects, located in northern Chile, will be equipped with 110 MW of CSP and 17.5 hours of thermal storage.

Yingli is providing over 780,000 multicrystalline utility-scale YGE 72 Cell solar panels to the projects, which be installed in two phases. The first power plant is expected to be operational by mid-2016. Once complete, the PV portion of the plants will occupy around 40,000 ha of land.