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Tap the Sun Burning Over Sahara to Electrify Homes in Europe, Expert Suggests
All of Europe's energy needs could be supplied by building an array of solar panels in the Sahara desert, a climate change conference has been told.
Technological advances combined with falling costs have made it realistic to consider North Africa as Europe's main source of imported energy, Dr Anthony Patt of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, told scientists at a climate change conference in Copenhagen.
By harnessing the power of the sun, possibly in tandem with wind farms along the North African coastline, Europe could easily meet its 2020 target of getting at least 20 per cent of its energy from renewable sources, Dr Patt said.
"The sun is very strong there and it's very reliable."
"It could supply Europe all the energy it needs,"
"There is starting to be a growing number of cost estimates of both wind and concentrated solar power for North Africa....that start to compare favourably with alternative technologies. The cost of moving [electricity] long distances has really come down."
He said only a fraction of the Sahara, probably the size of a small country, needed to be covered to extract enough energy to supply the whole of Europe.
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