SN Power Enhances Existing Power Infrastructure in Chile

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- The Chilean branch of Norway’s Statkraft SF SN Power, the biggest Norwegian power producer and power trader, recently announced plans to construct a 50-megawatt (MW) wind generating farm to be located in the Canela municipality in the fourth region of Chile. The $100M wind park will be equipped with 27 turbines and is scheduled to begin operation at the beginning of 2009.

SN Power executive of Latin American operations Nils Huseby, said that they want to be present in Chile and all over Latin America developing energy projects in the region that have low environmental and social impacts. At the same time, the company is designing four new hydro plants in Chile with a combined capacity of 580MW.

SN Power was established in 2002 as a Norwegian limited company owned by Statkraft and Norfund, it is a growing international hydropower company and is a leading company in the use of renewable energies and sustainable development projects. SN Power initiative is in line with Chile’s efforts to enhance renewable energy projects and the government‘s plan to bring electricity to 25 percent of the population by 2010.

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