International Law

Political stability

By Karl-Friedrich Lenz

in Northern Africa would seem to be desirable for a 400 billion Euro project of building large-scale solar energy plants in the Sahara desert.

Therefore recent events in the area are not necessarily helpful for realizing the DESERTEC vision.

The latest newsletter from DII starts out with a comment by CEO Paul van Son. He concedes that there may be some temporary delays. But he expects the project to go ahead regardless of the political scenario.

I am not so sure about that. It will be difficult to raise the necessary amount of investment for projects in countries where bullets are flying. A minimum of stability is essential for investments of the scale in question.

One more reason to look at the Gobi desert as well.

Full post as published by Lenz Blog on March 31, 2011 (boomark / email).