Cars are Germany’s principal employment generator. Come 2050, it could be the solar industry. Germany’s Wuppertal Institute for Climate for Greenpeace and the Club of Rome says that if the right political push is given from now onwards, more than 580,000 jobs in concentrated solar power (CSP) could be created worldwide by the middle of this century.
Concentrated solar power uses mirrors to harness the sun’s rays to produce steam and drive turbines to produce electricity. Solar thermal power still remains more expensive than fossil fuels but political backing and government incentives could see a push in this area. But the project in the line of sight promises to tilt the scales on the side of power generation and employment.
A project envisaged that will link power generated in Sahara to its use in Europe and North Africa could create 240,000 German jobs and generate 2 trillion Euros ($2,822 billion) worth of power by 2050. The study also projects that double that number of jobs could be created worldwide with the right political climate.
Greenpeace energy expert Andree Boehling says,
“Renewable energy could become Germany’s leading industry in the 21st century. And concentrated solar power could become Germany’s next export hit after photovoltaic and wind energy.”
Germany has already got a head start and is now a world leader in the solar industry. The German solar industry employs 214,000 workers. Compare that with the 750,000 working in the car industry which is the largest German sector of old.
The desert project is at the epicenter of any meteoric progress planned by the industry and it is the political leadership which has to push the proposals forward. The concentrated solar power project is arguably massive – use mirrors to harness the sun’s rays in Sahara to produce steam, drive turbines to produce electricity and then supply to markets locally and in Europe. It is just one of six Euro-Mediterranean Partnership projects being planned. The German government hopes 20 gigawatts of CSP – equal to 20 large conventional power plants – could be harvested each year by 2020 by Desertec. The Desertec Foundation has gauged that in six hours the world’s deserts receive more energy than mankind consumes in a year.
The political will could be one of the sideshows during the next G-8 summit. If Germany has to do it then Chancellor Merkel has to keep it on top of her agenda.
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