Regulatory Agency / Government

The Chilean subsidiary of AES Corp has found a new buyer for its 50% stake in the 764 MW Guacolda coal-fired power plant in Atacama.

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has kicked off its environmental review of Ørsted and Eversource’s Revolution Wind project off the coast of New England.

Spanish law firm Cuatrecasas has snagged energy lawyer Fabio Ardila from competitor Gómez-Pinzón to work from the Bogota office in Colombia.

DPP Holdings, the Chilean subsidiary of Canada’s Distributed Power Partners, has begun the permitting process for a 12.5 MW (DC) solar unit in the country’s Antofagasta region under the PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) distributed generation scheme.

Sempra Energy has reached financial close on the sale of its Chilean assets to State Grid International Development, after announcing the agreement in October of last year.

German renewable energy start-up Energy Kitchen is adding a 95.2 MW wind project with a battery storage system to its Chilean wind pipeline while it works on three other smaller-scale projects in the country.

A group of banks led by IDB Invest are about to launch a liquidity credit line to help Chilean power companies impacted by the freeze in power prices implemented at the end of 2019.

The government of Brazil is sticking to its guns, trying to push through the privatization of Eletrobras in this calendar year.

Developers in Mexico presented bids on June 15 to participate in a tender for geothermal exploration and drilling projects in the country, which has been in the works since 2018.

Ecuador's state-owned utility Ecuador Electric Corp has launched a procurement process for a 14.8 MW (DC) solar project with a battery storage unit on the Galapagos islands.