The European Energy commissioner has announced that the project Desertec will begin to provide electricity to Europe within five years, which is half the original estimate.The project is partly funded ...

If the news of the last month and a half is any indication, the likelihood of finally kick-starting the Desertec renewable scheme in North Africa had become more elusive than even critics once thought ...

A plan to power Europe from Saharan solar plants seems to have stalled, but several large North African solar projects are still going ahead despite local concerns. If you use social media, you may ...

The proposal is to repeat the political situation that exists with OPEC and oil with renewable solar and wind. Locate the power in the exact same area that has all of the political unrest and ...

Deserts receive more energy in six hours than all the people in the world consume in an entire year. An ambitious project envisioned by a group of German business and political leaders aims to harness ...

Desertec is the largest solar power project ever conceived. It is designed to provide a significant portion of the electricity needs of participating countries in the Middle East and North Africa ...

(Phys.org)—Another German industrial giant has bailed out of the Desertec project, which is trying to safeguard the future of a green Europe with expanded use of renewable energy. Bosch has confirmed ...

Desertec is primarily an idea out of the back room of the Club of Rome, that body of mostly old men who ponder how to save the world. Their bold plan envisions generating green solar energy in one of ...

The most ambitious solar power plan ever conceived may be coming into some serious cash. A group of 20 German firms is forming a consortium this July to begin raising $555 billion for the ...

As recently as three years ago, many thought that it was only a matter of time before solar thermal plants in North Africa supplied a significant portion of Europe's energy needs. But Desertec has hit ...

The founders of Desertec are calling the scope reduction, “a change in direction,” but it seems that Desertec, until recently among the most aspiring inter-regional solar project ever conceived with a ...

The Desertec Industrial Initiative, the world’s most ambitious solar power project, will map out investment plans by 2012 to develop carbon-free energy that could supply up to 15 percent of Europe’s ...