The majority of the non-recourse debt-financing comes from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) – the US government’s development-finance institution – which has proved instrumental in most of SunEdison’s large overseas projects of late.

The 50.7MW (AC) San Andres array will be the largest merchant solar-power plant in Latin America upon its completion next year, and one of the largest in the world, selling its electricity directly onto Chile’s spot market.

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