apr 12, 2016 - JEMSE (Jujuy Energy and Mining State Society) and and Shanghai Electric Power Construction Co. launched Cauchari Solar Park project in Jujuy

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A product of the successful RenovAR national renewable development programme launched in 2016, Cauchari Solar Park is the largest of its kind on the South American continent.
In 2016, JEMSE won a tender from the Renewable Energy
Promotion Program (RenovAr) and now manages the 300-megawatt
Cauchari Solar Park project in the southeast of Salar de OlarozCauchari. Funded by the Chinese Exim Bank, JEMSE contracted the
Chinese firms PowerChina and Shanghai Electric Power Construction to
build the approximately 1.18 million solar panels (interviews #LIT50
and #LIT55, see also Gobierno de Argentina, 2019). According to the
provincial government, the solar park is not only the largest solar park in
South America, but also the highest in the world, located at 4,020 meters
above sea level. In addition, JEMSE is responsible for implementing a
series of autonomous ‘solar villages’ (9 between 2019 and 2020) in the
Puna of Jujuy. The first solar village, which was recently inaugurated in
Olaroz Chico, is located close to Jujuy’s first lithium mining project.

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