Energy is one of the crucial elements for life on earth. The main sources of energy that we use today are exhaustible and have an impact on our natural environment. In order to secure living conditions for present and future generations, a reliable and sustainable supply of energy will, thus, be one of the major challenges of mankind.
The DESERTEC vision points at the enormous amounts of energy that is being delivered every day by the sun to the deserts of our earth. In addition, some deserts have very good wind sites. The deserts would enable a secure, sufficient and affordable energy delivery for the future world population from clean and inexhaustible sources. Plenty of electric energy can be generated from these sources, and existing technologies would be able to deliver this energy to the different energy markets day and night.