Desertec Africa starts at Tunisia to produce Solar Electricity for Europe
Post date: Jan 28, 2012 9:24:12 PM
Here Comes the Sun :
Tunisia to Energize Europe
NUR energie London
2000 MW SOLAR ELECTRICITY in Tunisia
for export through a merchant HVDC
CABLE (could be transgreen france)
into Europe Italy
NUR energie LTD London
is a Solar power
plant developer in the Mediterranenan
a British solar firm with a French name
Some solar enthusiasts dislike CSP. For among other reasons, they believe it is too expensive now that the price of a different solar technology - photovoltaics (PV) - has plummeted. Some -including Google with its renewable energy fund - have even shifted support from CSP to PV, which is the technology in most rooftop solar panels. ;;;TuNur project exposed some possible cracks in Desertec
Dii Desert energy
Kevin Sara CEO NUR
where it started MENASOL 2010
Speaker BIO
Kevin has been involved with start-ups
and entrepreneurs for most of his career.
After earning his MBA at Ecole National des
Ponts et Chaussées, he co-founded the
European Telecom and Media Investment
Banking practice at Salomon Brothers,
advising governments on privatisation and
entrepreneurs on entering deregulated markets,
and deploying emerging technologies such as
wireless telephony and the internet. Later,
at Nomura International, Kevin founded a
technology principal investment group and
invested in over 35 European and US emerging
technology companies. More recently, while
working on his PhD in Energy Policy at Imperial College,
Kevin co-founded Hazel Capital, a clean-tech investment management company with investments in private
clean tech companies.
Hazel Capital he co-founded
The TuNUR projects 20,000 JOBS
that the project will create an estimated
20,000 much needed jobs in Tunisia
Education for Renewables
The deep need for employment and an increasingly
well-educated workforce is a major focus of discussion
in Tunisia which is already in discussions about how
best to train those who will educate the future generations
of the renewable energy workforce. TuNur Ltd's CEO in
Tunisia will be
Speaker Klaus Schmidtke
Dii's comment on the TuNur project ?
such as in Morocco, where Dii “enabled” work will begin this year on a 500-megawatt plant, which Shcmidtke said could use CSP or PV.
Dr Till Stenzel, who is looking forward
to "...working closely with the Tunisian authorities,
as well as European utilities and governments"
This week in Tunis, the birthplace of the Arab Spring,
saw visits from the likes of Google's Eric Schmidt and
the IMF's Christine Lagarde, as local members of
civil society from Tunisia, members of both the
traditional and renewable energy private sector,
young business leaders, diplomats,
NGOs focused on Green issues
,and journalists, primarily from Africa and the Arab world,
gathered to discuss the TuNUR project and exchange ideas
about how North Africa can look towards a stronger more
stable economic future through true win-win collaborations.
The Tunisian partners, include Top Oil's CEO, Fehti Somrani,
who will serve as Director of TuNur Ltd., who is enthusiastic
about how this project will help his country,
"Proper investment and job creation, not simple charity can
help alleviate the poverty and corruption that helped
trigger the Arab Spring".
source: huffingtonpost.com
Themis concentrated PV pilot plant 0.2MW
Villeneuve-Loubet 5MW Photovoltaic
( Plan Solaire, Derby label, membership
Capenergies)
Tuniasian joint venture partner Top Oilfield Services
Tunisian joint venture partner (www.topoilfieldservices.com),
Top Oilfield Services, are creating what may just be the most
ambitious solar power renewable energy project to date