An £18-million ($29.7m) solar-energy research institute is to be set up in Chile, in partnership with Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems.
Chile’s energy ministry and the Chilean Economic Development Agency will provide 40 per cent of the funding.
Rodrigo Escobar, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile who will lead the project, said the institute would research ways of producing and distributing solar energy and water treatment.
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