Engie has partnered with Ecoppia, an Israeli company that provides robotic cleaning solutions for photovoltaic (PV) solar projects, for its Coya solar PV plant in Chile.
Located in the Antofagasta region, the 181.25MWac/199.8MWdc solar facility is Engie’s largest project in northern Chile, which is said to be one of the world’s driest regions.
Ecoppia will work to optimize production at the Coya solar plant and supply water-free robotic cleaning solutions for its solar panels.
The firm said that its Cloud-based platform has been designed and developed to constantly monitor and remotely manage the cleaning robots.
When used alongside a suite of advanced, fully autonomous robots, the platform is intended to increase the performance of utility-scale solar PV sites.
The Coya facility is the fourth project on which Engie and Ecoppia have worked together.
Eccopia said it expects to receive $7.2m in revenue from the project over the course of its lifecycle.