Des "autoroutes EDF énergétiques" sous la Méditerranée à l'étude

Des groupes industriels européens ont lancé le consortium Transgreen pour envisager un réseau sous la Méditerranée.

EDF Areva, le seul sud Taqa

Reste la question de la place exacte des pays du Sud dans ce partenariat qui ne compte, à ce jour, qu'une entreprise non-européenne, le groupe émirati Taqa.

Electricite Nucleaire pour l'Afrique ?

Mis en avant sous l'angle des énergies renouvelables, ce projet doit aussi permettre d'exporter de l'électricité de l'Europe vers l'Afrique, qu'elle soit d'origine "nucléaire, renouvelable ou fossile", a-t-il souligné.

source: metrofrance.com

Like Germans, go Desertec

France provoking disappointment, no nuclear for North Africa, let's destroy Desertec with EDF-Areva Transgreen.

France is 25 years behind Solar World leader Germany.

Germany to invest $500bn in Desertec, France starting with kinky 3 million Euro, hoped to channel Euro money, will not happen. No sub-primes no nuclear, let's make solar, french thinking isolated.

L'objectif de cette structure, qui disposera dans un premier temps d'un budget modeste de "2 à 3 millions d'euros", n'est pas d'investir dans les infrastructures mais de promouvoir ce type d'interconnexions, a expliqué André Merlin, président du Conseil de surveillance d'ERDF et RTE, filiales d'EDF.

source: metrofrance.com

To bring Europe onboard for financing the Desertec concept. This plan now seems to have been outflanked by the French initiative. To make matters even worse for the Spanish, Transgreen is planning to build the main connection via Italy rather than Spain.

source: leonardo-energy.org

Related:

Currently only a dual AC line with 1.400 MW is crossing the street of Gibraltar

source: desertec-mediterranee.over-blog.com

The Transgreen group hopes that solar power farms planned in the Sahara desert will generate 20 gigawatts of electricity by 2020, and that a quarter of this could be fed into the European market.

For this to happen, undersea cables will have to be laid, a project that experts estimate could cost up to EUR8 billion.

source: http://www.energia.gr

Desertec or Transgreen

who has the money

who has the North Africa team skills

who is the Solar leader now

Solar Germany or Nuclear France ?

source: market-melange.com

Update June-28-2010

Germany' S Siemens AG (IF) said Thursday it will join French solar power Transgreen initiative, which is supposed to complement has German-led project known have Desertec. Transgreen is supposed to complement Desertec, which aims to build, over 40 years, has huge network off wind turbines and solar electricity sites in North Africa and the Middle East.

source:worldenergymedia.com

“The DESERTEC project aims for a fundamental transformation of the global supply of energy. The objective is to convert power production to renewable sources, in particular, harnessing the high energy potential of the world’s desert regions. DESERTEC is a holistic concept that, besides energy security and climate protection, addresses the subjects of drinking water supply, socio-economic development, international cooperation, and security policy.”

As DESERTEC’s CEO Paul van Son pointed out, DESERTEC is not one single project, but a master project constituted by several projects :

“DESERTEC is often portrayed in the media as a single concentrated solar power project costing €400 billion and taking 40 years to complete but that’s not how we are implementing DESERTEC. DESERTEC is a development. Our aim is to create the right conditions to allow market parties, supported by government, to develop sustainable energy production in countries in North Africa. We want to pave the way for many different investments in different countries, involving many different actors. So we are talking about a wide range of projects.”

source: market-melange.com