CASE STUDY Chile: Solar Panel Soiling Valhalla, an energy company in Chile, is making resource assessment and solar-panel soiling measurements in advance of construction of the Cielos de Tarapacá Project. The Cielos de Tarapacá (CdT) project is composed of a 600 megawatt photovoltaic solar plant with single-axis tracking to follow the sun from east to west. The approximately 1,650 hectare (6.4 square mile) project site is located in Pintados, approximately 60 kilometers south of Iquique, in the Tarapacá Region. Cielos de Tarapacá is complementary to Espejo de Tarapacá. In 2020, the combination of these two projects will create the first large-scale system in the world capable of producing solar energy 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, competing directly and without subsidies with th

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