Desertec, a European project that wants to spend $550 billion to build a series solar plants in northern Africa, can claim to be progressing. Five new companies joined the project's partnership over ...

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 ...

Desertec, a project to link Europe's power grid to Africa, has been in the news quite often lately, and for good reason. It offers a compelling image: A vast, high-tech network of transmission lines ...

The Desertec Foundation, a non-profit body behind an ambitious plan to power Europe with solar electricity generated in the deserts of Africa and the Middle East, has quit from the industrial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...