June 10, 2026
The president of Chile, José Antonio Kast Rist, was in attendance as independent power producer (IPP) Grenergy inaugurated a 3.5GWh battery energy storage system (BESS).
Spain-headquartered renewable energy IPP Grenergy held a ceremony earlier this week (8 June) to mark the completion of the battery storage project. Located in northern Chile’s portion of the Atacama Desert, the BESS comprises part of the sixth phase of the company’s huge Oasis de Atacama complex.
Oasis de Atacama co-locates battery storage and solar PV generation at multi-gigawatt and multi-gigawatt-hour scale. As it grows, Grenergy continues to scale up its scope and ambition.
For instance, as the IPP secured US$270 million in financing last September for Elena, the name given to Phase 6, Oasis de Atacama’s eventual target size was 2GW of solar PV paired with 11GWh of battery storage.
