SANTIAGO – Chile is building South America’s first solar thermal power plant in its Atacama Desert – world’s best place to produce solar energy, with the most potent sun power on the planet.
This development will prove to be a turning point in the history of human electricity-making, as the price of solar energy has fallen so much in Chile that it is increasingly beating out conventional sources of power.
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“This is the beginning of a trend that will only accelerate,” said Chilean Energy Minister Andrés Rebolledo. “We’re talking about an infinite fuel source.”
Chile was last year’s top-scoring clean-energy producer in the Americas, and second in the world to China, according to the Bloomberg rankings.
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