Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Desert Solar Could Meet 25% of World’s Power Needs by 2050

From Solve Climate today...

By Stacy Feldman - May 26th, 2009

Concentrating solar power (CSP) plants could meet 7 percent of the world's power needs by 2030 and 25 percent by 2050, according to a new report by Greenpeace, the European Solar Thermal Electricity Association and the International Energy Agency.

Such systems currently make up just 430 megawatts of generation capacity, or less than one half of one percent of electricity needs worldwide.

CSP "is about to step out of the shadow of other renewable technologies and can establish itself as the third biggest player in the sustainable power generation industry," the report's authors write.

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image via Solve Climate

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