The world’s largest solar farm rises in the remote Egyptian desert

Nice progress from Egypt.

http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-egypt-green-power-20180730-story.html#

The world’s largest solar park, the $2.8-billion Benban complex, is set to open next year 400 miles south of Cairo in Egypt’s Western Desert.

It will single-handedly put Egypt on the clean energy map.

That is no small feat for a country that’s been hobbled by its longtime addiction to cheap, state-subsidized fossil fuels and currently gets more than 90% of its electricity from oil and natural gas.

In five years, renewable energy will be cheaper than coal in many countries.

Good news to renewable energy researchers.

http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/02/surfing_wave_of_profitability/

Solar, wind, batteries, hydrogen are the four Musketeers of our clean energy future, which will protect our oceans from the effects of global warming. On June 15, the lastest Bloomberg Energy Report concluded that renewable energy will soon be more profitable than coal or oil. The energy transition will soon surf the wave of profitability.