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Solar plant Maria Elena, 185 hectars, 250.000 photovoltaic modules
Solar plant Maria Elena, 185 hectares, 250.000 photovoltaic modules
Antofagasta, Atacama desert. Electric network technicians upgrading a new line outside the city of Antofagasta.
Antofagasta, Atacama desert. Electric network technicians upgrading a new line outside the city of Antofagasta.
Antofagasta, Atacama desert. New line outside the city of Antofagasta upgrading.
Antofagasta, Atacama desert. Solar public illumination on highway.
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Solar plant outside Antofagasta, Atacama desert.
Solar plants. Atacama Desert, Chile.
Dust cleaning operation in the La Huayca II, a massive solar plant in the Atacama desert, Tarapacá region.
The Cerro Dominador is a 210 MW solar-thermal project, combining photovoltaic energy and solar concentrating power. The project is the biggest of his kind in in Latin America and will prevent of the emission of approximately 870.000 tons of CO2 per year.
The Cerro Dominador tower at sunset. Cerro Dominador is a 210 MW solar-thermal project, combining photovoltaic energy and solar concentrating power. The project is the biggest of his kind in in Latin America and will prevent of the emission of approximately 870.000 tons of CO2 per year.
Lifesize dinosaur model, near Pica, Atacama desert. The area is full of solar plants and is also called dinosaurs valley because it preserved several fossils.
Road in construction with an Animita near La Huayca II, a massive solar plant in the Atacama desert, Tarapacá region.
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Wind pales outside the city of Calama, Antofagosta region.
Truck blocked in the desert during the construction of a new solar plant inside the Marcamasi cooperative, a collaboration between 17 families in rural areas founded on the common investment for solar plants.
Water gallon wastes in the Arnoldo Quezada energetic independent farm. The Atacama region is the driest non-polar desert in the world.
Daniela Mamani, 64. Her farm is part of the Marcamasi cooperative, a collaboration between 17 families in rural areas founded on the common investment for solar plants.
Milka Condoi, swimming in the water reserve of her energetic independent farm. The two solar plants installed in 2015 supplies for the reservoir water extraction and her house needs.
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Ilarior Gutierrez Mamane's son irrigating fields of the family farm.
Solar powered public illumionation, Tamarugal area.
The Zofri Mall with 960 solar panel on the roofs produces 42.500 kwh per month, almost the 35% of total energy consumption of the structure.
Panoramic view of Iquique, harbour city part of the Tarapacá region, Chile. The city is surrounded by Cerro Dragón, the biggest urban dune in the World, that set the border with the Atacama desert.
Thermal waters, known as “Cocha”, set in a natural hollow in the volcanic rock of Pica, almost 60 km south-east of Pozo Almonte, Atacama desert.
Marching band practicing for the San Andrés parade in Pica, a small touristic town set in a natural hollow in the volcanic rock of Pica, almost 60 km south-east of Pozo Almonte, Atacama desert.
Cerro Pabellon cables near the Road 21. Italian state owned company ENEL built the Cerro Pabellon geothermal power plant, the first of his kind in Latin America that started delivering electricity to the SING in April 2017.
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El Tatio geyser with an old geothermal station in the background. El Tatio stands at 4,320 meters above mean sea level and counts over 80 active geysers, making it the largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere and the third largest in the world. Italian state owned company ENEL built the Cerro Pabellon geothermal power plant, the first of his kind in Latin America that started delivering electricity to the SING in April 2017.
Indigenous keepers of El Tatio geysers. El Tatio stands at 4,320 meters above mean sea level and counts over 80 active geysers, making it the largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere and the third largest in the world.Italian state owned company ENEL built the Cerro Pabellon geothermal power plant, the first of his kind in Latin America that started delivering electricity to the SING in April 2017.
Salt flats in Ollagüe, a small volcanic town near the Bolivian border.
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Road 21 maintenance mixing salt with water  as asphalt's base. Región de Tarapacá, near the Bolivian border.
Waste collection by locals in the Inca Coya lake, a famous tourists location.

Renewable energies Atacama Desert

Chile

Latin America’s high potential and rapid spread of renewable energy, which now covers 53% of its generation capacity, has fueled hope of a global transition to a low-carbon economy. Over the next five years, renewables will remain the fastest-growing source of electricity, and solar energy may be cheaper than coal globally by 2025, or earlier.

Chile’s Atacama Desert, at the forefront of the green energy global transition, has the highest solar incidence in the world, with the potential to generate all of the country’s electricity with about 4 percent of the desert’s surface area. Following the region’s mining boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the landscape of touristic costal cities and rural towns was radically transformed by a green revolution. The Chilean government is determined to produce 70 to 100% of the country’s energy from renewable sources by mid-century. Solar panels are seen on almost every rooftop, square or street illumination, as public and private investments are boosting a continuos pop-up of geothermal and solar plants as big as hundreds of soccer fields all together, changing the common perception of a desert, unfriendly environment into a land of opportunity.

YEAR: 2017 LOCATION: Atacama desert, Chile

PUBBLICATION: Internazionale, IT Al Gore’s Climate Reality Program, USA – Worldwide