Proximocast: 20 minutes with Rainer Bucher, BCI

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Americas

Thomas Hopkins

Deputy Editor

Proximo talks to Rainer Bucher, an executive director at BCI, about Chile's Small Means of Distributed Generation (PMGD) programme. Topics include the history of the PMGD programme, the benefits of distributed solar for Chile, recent regulatory changes to the PMGD scheme, and any alterations to PMGD project financings as a result of the new regulation.

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