SOLAR ENERGY GROWING EACH WEEK

This week has been a really good one for solar power, with news coming out of two different countries concerning sizeable solar projects. First off Tunisia has made public it is moving full speed ahead with the large Desertec Project and secondly, Japan has released figures showing that its own solar power generation has significantly increased.

Tunisia has won the praise of green industry leaders by announcing that they can now be pressing ahead with a 2000MW installation of solar power. For a long time the project looked like it might never occur (and there are still, it is worth noting, a great number of hoops to jump thru) but the suggested installation of thousands of solar panels in the Sahara Desert is now coming to the end. 

It's been reported by several industry insiders that Tunisia has divulged the fourth stage of the Desertec project and rumour has it it's something special. Apparently the TuNur project, a concentrating solar-thermal plant will be somewhere in the area of 2000MW which would make it about six times bigger than any solar power thermal projects currently in Tunisia and even 4 times as large as any power generation plant of any sort found in Tunisia. 

Many people would question why Tunisia needs a power plant of that size but the power would not all be utilized in Tunisia? Instead a good deal of it'd be sent to Europe through the utilising of undersea wires.

Similarly, in Japan the utilising of decentralized solar poweroutput rise by over 50%. That is particularly exciting when you allow for the proven fact that it is tiny scale solar power production, manufactured by consumers and smaller enterprise saws. It has been let slip that in Japan smaller firms and homeowners output an increase of 50% more roof solar cell electricity than they did the year before, thanks to the prevalence of solar instalars and solar companies.

According to the newest figures Japanese solar panels owners returned a mixed total of more than 2,200 gigawatt hours to their power corporations through last year. Indeed the purchase volume of last year is somewhere in equivalence to 0.25 per cent of the sales from their supply companies of approximately 885,000 giga-watt hours per year in average across the 3 years up until March of 2011.Build a solar panel