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Comparative Advantage - Tunisia exports solar power to Europe

Geoff Riley

8th September 2017

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Here is a feature on the vast solar power plant in Tunisia which it is hoped will be the platform for exporting enough renewable energy to power up to two million homes in Southern Europe. 4.5 GW of solar power is proposed in Tunisia for export using marginal land considered not good enough for commercial agriculture.

Tunisia could soon be home to a 4.5 GW Concentrated Solar Power facility:https://t.co/15I6uS6ukg #CSP #Solar pic.twitter.com/Vnxt9eyw4e
— Opus Energy (@Opus_Energy) September 6, 2017

Massive project in #Tunisia is hoping to be the first to make the #solar power export dream a real. https://t.co/bcKAVMycZe via @ClimateHome
— Global Sustainability (@CambUP_GSus) August 15, 2017

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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