The deal represents a huge win for SunEdison’s Latin Americanteam, having established offices in Chile, Brazil and Mexico since2010 – and further underscores the growing importance of theregion's solar market.

Yesterday Geneva-based Etrion revealed a letter of intent to build an 8.8MWPV system for a different Chilean miner.

SunEdison’s 100MW project will use 300,000 of MEMC’s own-brandSilvantis monocrystalline modules, as well as solar trackers madefrom CAP-supplied steel.