Featured in Keep on tracking – 12-2010

Our place in the sun

Desertec: By end of the year 2010, the Desertec Industrial Initiative (Dii) had planned to develop a concept for its vision of supplying Europe with solar electricity from the deserts of North Africa and the Near East. Yet little concrete information has been provided up to now. Perhaps France will be able to provide the German project with a jump start.

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pv magazine

15 Dec 2010

What about Medgrid? This is the current working title of the French initiative around the electricity company Électricité de France (EDF) that aims to establish a high-voltage transmission system in the Mediterranean region in order to conduct renewable energy from North Africa to Europe. The project was first announced in May under the provisional title …

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