Featured in Latin sunrise – 04-2012

Grapes in the desert

Chile: Earlier this year, innovative Chilean fruit producer Exportadora Subsole completed work on the first stage of a large-scale solar PV project, which it hopes will boost production and help to safeguard jobs in a remote rural region.

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pv magazine

02 Apr 2012

Exportadora Subsole’s 307.2 kWp system will power deep ground water pumps to help irrigate crops at the company’s 265 hectare Agrícola Don Alfonso farm in the Copiapó Valley, some 800 kilometers north of Chile’s capital Santiago. Located in the fringes of the Atacama Desert, the region is the driest anywhere in the world but also …

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