Enlight Renewable Power has begun preliminary business operations at its Atrisco Photo voltaic & Power Storage mission, situated exterior Albuquerque, N.M.
The mission consists of 364 MW photo voltaic technology capability and 1.2 GWh of power storage capability. It was developed and constructed by Enlight’s U.S. subsidiary Clenera. The array is predicted to succeed in full business operations over the subsequent a number of weeks, and the BESS advanced of the mission is predicted to finish COD by the tip of the 12 months.
Energy produced at Atrisco is being bought by the Public Service Firm of New Mexico beneath a 20-year PPA.
Atrisco is the biggest mission constructed by Enlight, each in capability and capital expenditure. The EPC contractor was RES Americas, and Miller Brothers is the O&M contractor. The mission makes use of photo voltaic panels from Runergy, trackers from Array Applied sciences and string inverters from Sungrow. The power storage system was provided by Tesla.
Atrisco was constructed at a complete price of $827 million and complete mission price internet of tax fairness of $407 million. In complete, the mission has obtained $290 million in debt financing from consortiums of banks led by HSBC, and a complete of $420 million from tax fairness companions Financial institution of America and US Financial institution.
“Attaining the primary part of business operations at Atrisco is a serious milestone,” says Adam Pishl, Clenera president and CEO.
“We’ve got taken a brownfield web site with little use and remodeled it right into a clear power energy plant. The low-cost, emission-free power produced right here will profit generations of New Mexico residents and is the primary of our future investments within the state.”
