In November they commissioned the Tacna project – which is backed by US group Conduit Capital Partners – and had anticipated finishing the sister Panamericana Solar project by the end of 2012. Both were awarded to Gestamp and Solarpack in a February 2010 tender.

The two projects, which employ modules from China’s Yingli, are contracted to supply 98GWh of electricity annually into Peru’s grid for 20 years.