Some of us may or may not heard a news for a big project of solar energy couple day ago, a big consortium plan to build the electricity power from renewable energy , to put it exactly  will be solar energy and wind energy …  both together.

The project called Desertec involves a consortium of about 20 firms—including many big German company such as Siemens , Deutsche Bank , and energy companies like RWE—the project will cost around €400 billion ( the fund come from Europe, so it Euro currency), this is what  Torsten Jeworrek  said ( He is a Munich Re board member).

He said the initiative aimed to “present concrete plans in two to three years’ time,” and start the flow of energy to Europe within a decade. Munich Re will lead the project, and the meeting in July will formally establish the group.

He believes that it will be the largest green-energy project in the world, could provide around 15 percent of Europe’s energy needs. But German firms can’t do it alone—The Desertec would require cooperation among a number of different governments and firms.

We ( I mean you .. yes you’re my investor..and me) quit familiar with solar energy, we put solar panels or solar cells mostly on the roof. But they not doing that, they will use the technology called concentrating solar power CSP. This is not Hi-Technology such array of photovoltaic but Low-Technology , we should proud that our DIY at home is the Hi-Tech thing!. So, it will use mirrors to harness rays from the sun to produce steam and drive turbines that make electricity. The power would then be delivered to Europe through high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cables. This idea has existed for years, but the high cost of building the infrastructure has kept investors away.

According to the report from Greenpeace mention that the 1 sq km of land is enough to generate as much as 100-130 gigawatt hours (GWh) of solar electricity a year using solar thermal technology. This is the same as the power produced by a 50 MW conventional coal or gas-fired mid-load power plant. Over the total life cycle of a solar thermal power system( I don’t know exactly how long, should be 40 years), its output would be equivalent to the energy contained in more than 5 million barrels of oil. Sound interesting!

The solar fields and wind turbine will coverage from north Africa to the Middle East while Europe will installed only the wind turbine, of course it gonna be politic effects that will come from taking benefit from underdeveloped country to developed country, it may impact to local people/ some animal, bla bla bla. It is always like this, the big investment bring the dark side together with the brightness. But this is beyond my topic here!. So, the Desertec consortium will have to make sure that African countries involved receive ample compensation.

By Pett Martin: who always enjoy to talk about solar energy