Posted on 20 December 2009
Tags: Africa, british homes, desert, Desertec Industrial Initiative, Electricity, Europe, focal point, Middle East, mirrors, North Africa, photovoltaic cells, power plant, Sahara, solar energy, solar plant, spain, sun, tower, world
A large solar energy project in the Sahara is underway, which will provide electricity to British homes.
The Desertec Industrial Initiative (DII) group, that will provide a network of solar plants in north Africa harnessing the sun’s rays, will be the biggest in the world, leaving behind the current largest installation already running at Andasol in southern Spain.
It is hoped that the project will eventually provide 15% of Europe’s electricity by 2050, combined with other similar amounts of electricity for countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Posted on 13 July 2009
Tags: Desertec Industrial Initiative, deserts, generate electricity, heat, heat energy, high voltage direct current, Mediterranean sea, Middle East, mirrors, North Africa, oil, photovoltaic cells, receiver, renewable energy, Sahara, Siemens, solar mirrors, solar power plants, solar thermal power plants, sun, transmission cables, turbine, water, wind farms
Recently, Solar Power Plants have been planned to be installed in Sahara to generate electricity. Around a dozen companies are planning to launch a renewable energy initiative which they claim can provide Europeans with electricity generated from the Sahara at a cost of $557 billion within a decade.
A German insurer Munich Re, Deutsche Bank, utilities RWE and Eon, and industrial conglomerate Siemens are planning to form a company to explore the technical and geopolitical challenges of installing solar mirrors in the deserts of North Africa and Middle East.
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