Featured in Changing face of PV – 12-2014

The fall of Desertec

Ozymandias folly: Political power grabs, irresolvable disputes, and a chronic misjudgment of the Middle East’s delicate but determined power base put paid to Desertec’s plans to harvest MENA’s solar resources for Europe.
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Desertec launched in 2009 with the aim of generating and transmitting solar and wind energy from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe as of 2020, and in the process providing up to 15% of Europe’s power by 2050 at a cost of some €400 billion ($500 billion). Yet political instability in the region …

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