Tag: Dii

First Solar Takes on More Serious Desertec Role

First Solar has until recently participated as an associate partner of the Dii initiative designed to develop renewable energy...

Moroccan Solar is Safe Despite Desertec Setbacks

When Spain failed to show up for a recent Desertec meeting that would have signaled government support for the...

Tour One of the Largest Solar Thermal Projects on Earth at MENASOL 2012

This year's MENASOL on the 16th and 17th of May in Abu Dhabi, offers something even more special!

4 Desertec Deals That Make Our Energy Future More Secure

In just six hours, the deserts receive more energy from the sun than humankind produces in a year, and...

Tunisia Announces 4th Desertec Deal and 2 GW of Solar!

Wow, the Desertec vision is barreling into realization! A clean energy future where the world's deserts supply huge amounts of solar energy to the whole of humankind is truly becoming reality. Now the fourth Desertec project, by far the largest-ever solar plant in the world - for 2,000 MW of solar power - is to be built in Tunisia. (Previous stories: Desertec Begins: 500 MW Moroccan Solar in 2012, then MedGrid joined up, providing the transmission needed, with the plan to export up to 5GW of renewable power by cable under the Mediterranean between North Africa and Europe as early as 2020, and then most recently, the 3rd Desertec Deal Signed – Algerian Solar.) How huge will this solar project be? 2, 000 MW is six times the size of the largest solar CSP project ever built

Chamelic Invents Answer for Desert Solar & Dust!

One high-tech polymer start-up has developed a coating to solve the problem. The huge and visionary Desertec Industrial Initiative (Dii)plan to ship vast amounts of solar to Europe has one glaring potential weakness. Dust. Deserts have all the sun that is needed to power vast cities, and recently, the 3rd Desertec deal was signed, but they also have dust. Lots of it. And little water to clean it. Just one month's dust accumulation in desert conditions can reduce a panels output by 35%, and some even warn that water-intensive CSP is impossible for desert solar. So developing dust-resistant solar will be the next Big Thing.

Desertec Nation Algeria to Host Huge Solar Trade Fair from Germany

Algiers will be the place to be for utility-scale solar developers next May. The German trade fair specialists Messe and their Algerian daughter company in Algiers will hold a solar trade fair at the Palais des Expositions d'Alger from 7 to 10 May, 2012. As one of three North African desert nations now at the forefront of responsible climate legislation, through its ambitious solar plans and its participation in the visionary Desertec project, Algeria is ideally situated to host the event.

Huge MedGrid Joins Giant Solar Desertec Plan

In a marriage made in renewable energy heaven, the two most ambitious energy plans in the world have joined...

Green Prophet at Desertec Conference in Cairo

Desertec is a $500 billion solar project to catch Middle East and Africa sun. Tafline is currently at the...

Find Green Prophet at the 2nd Annual DII Conference in Cairo

Green Prophet is crossing the desert in a bus to attend one of the most important renewable energy conferences...