Europe gets to work on 100% renewable electricity plans
June 16th, 2009 by Jim JustA group of about 20 German firms are forming a consortium to build enough solar plants in the deserts of North Africa to supply 15% of Europe’s electricity needs.
The project could generate 100 gigawatts of electricity, the equivalent of 100 conventional power plants. The first electricity could begin flowing to Europe in 10 years.
Moving all that electricity around would require new transmission infrastructure such as the Supergrid.
The supergrid as envisioned by German energy consultant Dr. Gregor Czisch would stretch from Britain to Kazakhstan, and Scandinavia to Morocco, and transport huge amounts of renewable power back and forth to marry supply with demand.
Czisch has published a study titled Realisable Scenarios for a Future Electricity Supply based 100% on Renewable Energies that shows Europe could build an electricity supply based entirely on renewable energy by 2030.