Tunisia has won the praise of green industry experts by pronouncing that they will now be pressing ahead with a 2000MW installation of solar power. For a while the project seemed like it would never happen (and there are still, it is worth realizing, a large number of rings to leap through) but the proposed installation of thousands of solar panels in the Sahara Desert is now coming to fruition.
It has been reported by a number of industry insiders that Tunisia has revealed the 4th stage of the Desertec project and rumor has it that it is something special. Evidently the TuNur project, a concentrating solar-thermal plant will be somewhere in the region of 2000MW which would make it about 6 times larger than any solar power thermal projects now in Tunisia and even four times the size of any power generation station of any kind found in Tunisia.
Many folks would wonder why Tunisia needs a power station of that size but the power would not all be employed in Tunisia? Instead a good deal of it might be sent to Europe through the utilization of undersea wires.
Likewise, in Japan the use of decentralized solar power has seen output rise by more than 50%. Thats especially exciting when you factor in the indisputable fact that it is small scale solar power production, made by clients and smaller businesses. Its been reported that in Japan small firms and house owners output an increase of 50% more rooftop solar energy panel electricity than they did the year before, thanks to the predominance of solar installers and solar firms.
According to the latest figures Japanese solar cell owners returned a combined total of more than 2,200 gigawatt hours to their utility corporations throughout last year. Indeed the purchase volume of last year is somewhere in equivalence to 0.25 % of the sales from their utility companies of roughly 885,000 giga-watt hours each year in average throughout the 3 years up till March of 2011.
