Solar Power Plant in Africa to Supply Europe

Publisher:
Voice of America
Publication Date:
28 October 2014
Tags:
Tunisia, Economy, Business and Finance, Energy

By 2018, a large solar power plant in the Tunisian part of the Sahara desert may start sending power to energy-hungry Western Europe. The company running the plant says once it is fully operational it will generate almost twice as much electricity as an average nuclear plant and supply two million homes in Europe. VOA's George Putic reports.

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