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Download Summary of the Concept and the Studies
Version: 5 August 2008 (PDF, 800 kb): English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish. Older versions: Arabic, Turkish
 
DESERTEC Pictures for Press (ZIP, 10 MB)
White Paper (High Resolution PDF, 16 MB) with Figures (ZIP, 52 MB)
For further Pictures, Videoclips and Animations please ask the Solar Millennium AG or download a small version of its German Press-CD (ZIP, 26 MB).
Foto Galery on DESERTEC at Spiegel Online
Experience the Andasol Power Plants! (DSL video) / (ISDN)
In southern Spain, the first parabolic trough power plants are currently implemented. You can experience the construction of the world's largest solar power plants in a short movie.
German: Erleben Sie den Bau der Andasol-Kraftwerke! (DSL video) / (ISDN)
 
TREC in Press from 06-2006 till 08-2008 (ZIP, 60 MB)
To view the pages in this ZIP file, it is best to use Internet Explorer, not Firefox.
 
 
Press Releases
German Association for The Club of Rome (Hanover, April 24th 2008)
DESERTEC: 10,000 Solar GigaWatts – Clean Power from Deserts for the World
English version (DOC, 170 kb / PDF, 110 kb)
 
Hanover Fair / www.solarserver.de (Hanover, April 14th 2008)
German Government advocates the import of solar electricity from deserts
English version (DOC, 100 kb / PDF, 120 kb)
German version (DOC, 100 kb / PDF, 120 kb) or at www.hannovermesse.de
Letter from German government (PDF), inofficial English translation (DOC / PDF)
Program Forum "10,000 Solar GigaWatts" (PDF); April 23th and 24th at Hanover Fair
 
TREC (Hamburg, March 27th 2008)
Solar Mediterranean Union – Way to Energy and Climate Security?
English version (DOC, 300 kb / PDF, 350 kb)
 
German Association for The Club of Rome (Hamburg, November 27th 2007)
Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan presents White Paper to European Parliament (DOC, 600 kb / PDF, 600 kb)
Arabic version (DOC, 60 kb / PDF, 60 kb)
French version (DOC, 600 kb / PDF, 600 kb)
German version (DOC, 600 kb / PDF, 600 kb)
Spanish version (DOC, 600 kb / PDF, 600 kb)
White Paper (PDF, 2,5 MB) with Figures (ZIP, 52 MB) and Action Plan (PDF, 60 kb)
 
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (link) and Sigmar Gabriel, German Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, (PDF, Pages 5 & 6) campaign in their speeches for the DESERTEC Concept.
 
German Association for The Club of Rome (Hamburg, May 7th 2007)
Internationaler Verbund oder dezentrale Energieautonomie?
An answer to EUROSOLAR
German version (DOC, 40 kb / PDF, 40 kb) or at openPR
 
German Association for The Club of Rome (Hamburg, April 27th 2007)
Sigmar Gabriel und Utz Claassen für Solarstrom-Importe aus den Wüsten
German version (DOC, 220 kb / PDF, 110 kb) or at openPR
 
The Club of Rome (October 14th 2006)
German Politicians claim: “Clean Power from the Deserts”
English version (DOC, 280 kb / PDF, 140 kb)
German version (DOC, 280 kb / PDF, 140 kb)
 
TREC (July 20th 2006)
Sun cheaper than Oil
English version (DOC, 760 kb / PDF, 500 kb)
German version (DOC, 750 kb / PDF, 340 kb)
 
 
Press Kits
Press Kit for the World Energy Dialogue; April 25th to 27th 2006
Download (DOC, 460 kb / PDF, 150 kb)
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Page 7 		Press Release: World Energy Dialogue; April 25th to 27th 2006
10 Considerations by the Club of Rome
Opening Speech by HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal
Background Information: Solar Thermal Power Plants
 
 
 

 
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Events with TREC
We are honoured to organise the EUROMED SOLAR WORKSHOP on EU-MENA Cooperation on Solar Power, on the occasion of an extraordinary assembly of the Euro-Mediterranean Parlia-mentary Assembly (EMPA). The EMPA, about 240 Parliamentarians from across Europe, Middle East and North Africa, is the parliamentary institution of the "Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean (UfM)".
Journalists will have access to the meetings and can register with the Press Officer Thomas Dudrap, Tel. 0032 2 284 4524
 
TREC organised the Forum 10,000 Solar GigaWatts (PDF) at Hanover Fair 2008.
PowerPoint Presentations can be downloaded here: Session 1 (ZIP, 90 MB) and Session 2 (ZIP, 55 MB).
The Video Documentation is available at www.Energy1.tv
 
His Royal Highness Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, former president of The Club of Rome, presented a White Paper (PDF, 2,5 MB) by TREC about the DESERTEC Concept to the European Parliament at 28 November 2007. The White Paper and an Action Plan (PDF, 60 kb) have also been handed over to the President of the European Parliament Professor Hans-Gert Poettering (Photo).