Sunday 25 September 2022 12:08 AM £18BILLION plan to harness Sahara's solar and wind power that could slash ... trends now
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An £18billion plan to harness solar and wind power in the Sahara and use it to supply electricity to Britain could dramatically slash household bills, it was claimed last night.
Whitehall officials are poring over an extraordinary plan to install almost 12 million solar panels and 530 wind turbines across a vast expanse of desert in Morocco and then transfer the power they generate to the UK via the world’s longest undersea electricity cable.
The Xlinks project, which is chaired by former Tesco boss Sir Dave Lewis, claims it could power more than seven million homes by 2030, supplying an astonishing eight per cent of Britain’s energy needs.
A study by energy company Octopus, which has invested in the scheme, shows that the project would result in a sizable cut in household bills. It is believed the project would deliver electricity at about half the rate of that produced by nuclear power plants.
Xlinks has been granted permission to build a huge solar panel and adjacent wind farm across a 370- square-mile expanse of terrain in Morocco’s Guelmim-Oued Noun region.
