Rural electrification in the Amazon (Bolivia)
Cerro San Simón, located in the municipality of Baures in the Bolivian Amazon, is a remote area with an unstable electricity grid and vulnerable to adverse weather conditions.
The challenge:
To guarantee the 160 families in this Amazonian area access to an electricity backup and without interruptions during episodes of adverse weather conditions, a common occurrence in the area, providing a better quality of life for the region's citizens.
The solution:
We have created, together with our partners, the first operational smart grid for electricity distribution systems in Bolivia and, in turn, the largest lithium storage system in the country.
The solar plant has an installed PV capacity of 181.44 kWp, with 336 Jinko 540 Wp PV modules, 140 kW in SMA Sunny Tripower grid inverters, 806 kWh in a lithium battery bank consisting of 60 CEGASA eBick PRO 280 modules with SMA Sunny Island battery inverters.
This project has been realised thanks to funding from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) amounting to 10.3 million Bolivianos (around 1,391 billion euros).
Facts and figures:
Type of installation: Mini - Grid
Technical service: Turnkey EPC project
Contractor/Distributor: Consortium SIE - TTA - MORA
Inverter manufacturers, models and number of inverters: 18x SMA Sunny Island 8.0 / 7x SMA Sunny Tripower
Number of modules and model installed: 60x E/Bick 280Pro
PV peak power: 181.44 kWp
Total storage capacity: 806 kWh
This installation has been financed by the Inter-American Development Bank.
