Featured in Latin Sol-utions – 11-2013

A place to recharge

Tierra Atacama Hotel & Spa: Located in Chile’s stunning Atacama desert, the Tierra Atacama Hotel & Spa is part-powered by an off-grid solar system installed by Germany’s Kraftwerk RPS. pv magazine caught up with Kraftwerk’s Managing Director, Dr. Karsten Schulte, to discover more about this groundbreaking venture.

pv magazine: Could you begin by telling pv magazine how the project between Kraftwerk RPS and the Tierra Atacama Hotel came about? Dr. Karsten Schulte: When we set up the company we decided we could not just rely on Germany and other European countries, where lots of solar subsidies exist. So our strategy was to …

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