Honduras Installing New Solar Energy Plants, Part of Central America Renewable Push

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Honduras is set to install more than 400 megawatts of photovoltaic solar capacity in 2015 as it moves to green its energy matrix, said Alberto Cantor, legal adviser at the Energy Secretariat. The country inaugurated a $232 million, 100-megawatt solar energy plant in Nacaome in Southern Honduras May 6, which developers said is the largest in Latin America after Chile's Copiapo, which was started up in the Atacama desert last summer. "We have the capacity to produce up to 145 megawatts" during peak hours, Cantor told Bloomberg BNA May 11, estimating that the site will help Honduras save 167,300 tons of carbon dioxide and 169,000 barrels of imported oil annually.