A report from the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria and the Fraunhofer Chile Research Foundation predicts that Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants could be built in the northern Atacama Desert area with a levelized cost of energy (LCOE) that falls to $76 per MWh around Copiapo, the mining town and capital of the Atacama Region. The projected prices varied around an average of $89 per MWh in a large swathe of territory from the far-north Arica province, down through Parinacota, to the northern part of Coquimbo province, whose capital La Serena is 400 km north of national capital Santiago. This $89 per MWh territory combines solar irradiation of over 9.5 KWh per meter squared per day The report says factors…