CAMPAIGNS FOR CSP and desertec-related developments

Desertec groups

• The Desertec Foundation
• Desertec-Asia
• Desertec-Australia
• Desertec-France
• Desertec-India
• Desertec-Iran
• Desertec-Italy
• Desertec-Mediterranee
• Desertec-UK (this site)
• Desertec-USA

Other groups

• Clean Energy Action (USA)
• Desert Energy Project
• GENI Global Energy Network Institute
• GEZEN Foundation for Massive Scale Solar Energy (mainly in Dutch)
• Mid Atlantic Renewable Energy Initiative
• Protermosolar, Spain.
• Repower America
• The Concentrated Solar Power Open Source Initiative (CSPOSI)
• SolarNation (so far, this group does not seem to recognise CSP)
• Solar, not nuclear
• Solar Southwest Initiative
• SOLAQ Foundation
• Solar Thermal Now
• The Climate Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers. They have produced a document, Solar Potential (PDF, 1.6 MB), describing the potential of CSP.
• GMI Global Market Initiative for Concentrating Solar Power

Supergrid campaigns

• e-Parliament calls for clean energy supergrids
  • Paris: roundtable on grid infrastructure, 2008-11-21
• World Future Council calls for clean energy supergrid (see Etopia News interview with Dirk Hendricks of the WFC. See also Networking for Renewables: Supergrid (PDF, 352 KB)

See also Large-scale transmission grids.