Featured in Blue-sky thinking – 07-2014

The time has come

Chile: With hundreds of MW under construction, Chile is the first national PV market this size in the world without subsidies or feed-in tariffs. How did this happen, and can the new business models emerging here spread to other nations? pv magazine looks at the lessons learned from the first 186 MW of grid connected solar in Chile.

By

Christian Roselund

08 Jul 2014

It has been a long wait in the hot, dusty plains of Northern Chile. Solar developers have been flocking from Europe to the Atacama Desert with big plans for more than three years now, hoping to get rich off the natural abundance in this region, just as the mining companies have. This time, it is …

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