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Oil firm's African solar farm will transmit sub-Med electricity to Italy

SmartPlanet News  • Jan 27, 2012

Top Oilfield Services, a Tunisian oil and gas engineering company, is joining with Nur Energie - a British solar firm with a French name - to build a giant solar park in the Tunisian desert that will transmit electricity under the Mediterranean to Italy. The ambitious project would build "a new low-loss transmission line to Italy" that would go live in 2016 according to a press release from the Desertec Foundation, a global sustainable energy group with Mediterranean roots and strong German ties. It does not say… Full Story »

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