Can Europe Solar create a living for north African workers ?

Post date: May 18, 2011 7:00:48 AM

German Aerospace Center 16 May 2011

Power from the desert

is a realistic option for Africa and Europe

Africa and the Middle East

...can Solar create a living for African workers ?

Many of the conference participants and speakers come from northern Africa and the Middle East. Are solar researchers in Europe and Africa working more together?

DESY Research Centre in Hamburg

From 19 to 20 May 2011, high-level representatives from the fields of science, economics and politics will be discussing the potential of solar energy as a source of energy for the future, at the Solar Energy for Science Symposium

By developing solar energy,

Africa can reduce its energy imports

with the facilities that are being built there, Africa has access to this technology and the jobs are created local, for CSP

Concentrated Solar Power a lot of Service workers needed.

With the enerMENA project, DLR is training experts from northern Africa at research and test facilities in Cologne and Almería.

The DESERTEC Foundation

has set up a similar programme with the DESERTEC University Network

source: dlr.de