{"title":"Has Europe a need for solar plants in Africa?","authors":"U. Muntwyler","doi":"10.1109/EVER.2013.6521529","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The price/performance ratio of PV installations has drastically improved past the last years. PV installations in mid-Europe now produce cheaper than installations in southern Europe. At elevated sites like the European Alps, PV installations are now nearly as productive as installations in southern Europe / northern Africa. Solar power stations constructed in southern Europe should hence no longer feed northern Europe but rather local consumers in southern Europe and northern Africa.","PeriodicalId":386323,"journal":{"name":"2013 Eighth International Conference and Exhibition on Ecological Vehicles and Renewable Energies (EVER)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2013 Eighth International Conference and Exhibition on Ecological Vehicles and Renewable Energies (EVER)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EVER.2013.6521529","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The price/performance ratio of PV installations has drastically improved past the last years. PV installations in mid-Europe now produce cheaper than installations in southern Europe. At elevated sites like the European Alps, PV installations are now nearly as productive as installations in southern Europe / northern Africa. Solar power stations constructed in southern Europe should hence no longer feed northern Europe but rather local consumers in southern Europe and northern Africa.