In the Sands of North Africa, the DESERTEC Foundation's vision for a future where the world's deserts supply clean and sustainable energy to the whole of mankind is beginning to take shape. That future begins in the Saharan deserts of Tunisia with a project called "TuNur", a project being developed by Nur Energie and Tunisian partners lead by Top Group.
On Tuesday 12th July the Department of Energy and Climate Change “DECC” released the results of the Electricity Market Reform Consultation which ran from December 2010 to March 2011.
U.K. Should Build More Nuclear, Less Offshore Wind Power
May 9, 2011
BLOOMBERG - May 9 2011
In an article looking at the future of the UK energy supply David Kennedy, CEO of the Commitee on Climate Change states that the UK Government should look at cheaper ways of meeting the EU targets by such means as "buying renewable energy certificates from other European nations, and purchasing concentrated solar power from a project being developed in Tunisia by London-based Nur Energie Ltd."
A United Kingdom-based utility is licensing BrightSource Energy’s solar thermal technology to build a 38 megawatt power plant on the Greek Island of Crete.
On 26 May 2011, Nur Energie’s COO Dr. Till Stenzel presented at a parliamentary breakfast briefing in Berlin how Germany can benefit from importing clean solar electricity from North Africa.
Nur Energie is a multi-technology solar power plant developer in the Mediterranean
What we do
A solar developer and utility
Nur Energie develops solar power plants in the Mediterranean region and is establishing itself as a solar electric utility, developing, owning and managing solar power generating assets in the region.
A multi-technology developer
Nur Energie works with different solar technologies (including CSP, CPV, PV and BIPV), and we select the best matched technology for each particular project and its unique geographic and solar resource characteristics.
Solar export from the Sahara
In the longer term, Nur Energie is developing a large-scale solar power export project from the Sahara to Europe.