Straight Desert with a Splash of Clouds: World Solar Links
Deserts are sunny places and there are a lot of them around the world. While solar power has proven its usefulness in some unlikely places (Germany), the deserted places of the world are easy targets for expansive solar projects. Increasingly the global solar industry is eating up these opportunities. Here are a few more examples:
- Nevada. The United States itself is blessed with amazing natural diversity, deserts included. Spanish solar firm, Solar Millennium, awaits approval for a 240 megawatt solar thermal plant in Nevada’s Nye County.
- North Africa. The Mediterranean Solar Plan is an initiative to populate sunny Northern African nations with renewable energy hubs, in part for energy security, in part to supply energy to hungry Europe across the sea.
- India. Pasadena-based eSolar has signed a deal with India’s ACME Group to provide its solar technology for the construction of up to 1 Gigawatt’s worth of solar thermal power plants across India. It is the single biggest venture by a U.S. solar company overseas.
- Wales. Bob Hertzberg is an interesting story as a failed politician turned solar industrialist seeking out one of the cloudiest nations in the world to prove his unique solar technology.
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Posted on March 23rd in Solar News by Dan.