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July 5th, 2010
Energy Utopia and Reality Collide

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NATIONAL UAE –  Desertec, a plan to help power Europe with sunlight, starts with a simple idea: put solar energy plants around the Sahara and Middle East. The rest is complicated.Two weeks ago, the EU energy commissioner Gunther Oettinger met North African officials in Algiers to discuss integrating electricity markets. Mr Oettinger told Reuters electricity could start flowing to Europe within five years. Read More