Cyberattack
Power Station
Huatacondo solar/BESS and Santa Rita — reported cyber disconnection
27 August 2026 · source operating date; outage update 27 October
Pozo Almonte commune, Tarapacá, Chile (town reference)
Map
-20.2600, -69.7900
What happened
CEN’s log records RNE reporting cyber-related disconnection of Huatacondo solar/BESS and Santa Rita TR1. Its 27 October report still lists solar and BESS availability at zero. The battery was commissioning, not established commercial output lost. Attacker, method and wider consumer outages are unestablished. Grouped connected assets use a Pozo Almonte reference, not an exact facility coordinate.
When cited sources give different casualty, damage or spill figures for this event, they’re reported side by side above rather than merged into one number. See how confidence levels work.
- Evidence
- Reported / attributed
- Confidence
- Moderate
- Infrastructure
- Power Station
- Weather context
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- Latitude
- -20.2600°
- Longitude
- -69.7900°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.
Sources
- Chile Coordinador Eléctrico Nacional — Huatacondo solar/BESS and Santa Rita — reported cyber disconnectionChile Coordinador Eléctrico Nacional · Incident reporting
- CEN — 27 October plant availability, page 16Coordinador Eléctrico Nacional · Additional reporting
- pv magazine — commissioning context and operator-report limitationspv magazine Latinoamérica · Additional reporting