Spanish group Abengoa broke ground on the construction of a 100 MW photovoltaic plant that will be part of the 210 MW Atacama 1 solar complex in northern Chile. Located in Comuna de María Elena in the Atacama Desert, the region with the highest level of solar radiation in the world, Atacama 1 will feature the first solar thermal plant in Latin America, with 110 MW of installed capacity and 17.5 hours of thermal storage, which will complement the 100 MW PV plant. The complex's overall solar field ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...