In a not too distant future, electricity will come to Europe directly from the African sun, a consortium of 20 large German groups provides to invest EUR 400 billion to capture sunlight in desert areas of North Africa and transform it into electricity to be sent to the networks of European countries. This is Desertec, a project which for now is only on paper - the newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung - but it promises to become the largest of its kind in the world. The goal is to meet about 15% of the electricity demand in Europe within 10 years.
participating in the consortium, led by insurance giant Munich Re, groups such as Siemens, RWE and Deutsche Bank, but the table of the first meeting - scheduled for July 13 next - sit includes representatives from the German Economics Ministry and the NGO Club of Rome. "We want to establish a society with the aim of presenting concrete plans for implementation within two or three years," he told the newspaper Torsten Jeworrek, a member of the Board of Munich Re also partners in Europe and North Africa could soon take part in Desertec.
"on Italy and Spain from North Africa and we are optimistic we receive positive signals," said Jeworrek, which was rather skeptical on the accession of the French, "to" still very nuclear power, "he said. The project is based on the generation solar thermal technology with a relatively low use as a system of mirrors to heat water rather than a series of sophisticated photovoltaic cells. To transport this energy, is expected to build a new network of high voltage transmission from the desert of North Africa to Europe.
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