The North has its slag heaps like unique mountains.
The Chilean Atacama Desert, fields of wind turbines and solar panels as unique forests.
Here, nothing moves.
In the uniquely blue sky, not a bird.
Not an insect either.
“
There are a few small rodents
,” promises one of our hosts.
We won't see any of them.
However, it is in this adverse environment that Engie decided to build wind and solar farms.
Welcome to the world of extreme construction sites.
A single road lined with electricity pylons crosses this rocky immensity, with the Andes mountain range on the horizon.
However, this desert is not exempt from human activity.
In the distance, a copper mine.
And there, a first wind farm.
We arrive at the Lomas de Taltal construction site, 140 km from the small town of Taltal, more than 1100 km north of Santiago.
Here, Engie is erecting fifty-seven new machines, with dimensions close to those on the open sea: blades 165 meters in diameter perched on a 100 meter high mast.
They are spread over 3200 hectares (around 3200 football fields).
When the park is completed, it will have a production capacity of 342 megawatts, enough to power 160,000 Chilean homes...
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