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16

World Bank funds solar projects in North Africa

On Wednesday, December 16 , 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Solar energy in desertsThe World Bank via its Clean Technology Fund is investing $750 million (522 million euros) in eleven concentrating solar plants in the Middle East and North Africa region. This is due to spur additional investments worth $4.85 billion.

These projects are due to add nearly a gigawatt of capacity to local grids within three to five years in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia and would triple the current concentrated solar power (CSP) capacity.

I wonder if this could be a significant boost to the DESERTEC project as it is exactly about building renewable energy facilities in these countries.

In any case this is fantastic news for this promising technology. Indeed, a recent study showed that it could provide up to a quarter of global electricity by 2050

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