Renewable Energy
Solar
CONCENTRATED SOLAR INSTALLATION
Bulgaria has been known to have tremendous potential to convert sun light into energy for quite some time now.
In 2010 (updated in 2011) 'Satori Consulting' completed a study which indicates that the country is among top 5 countries in the southern Europe, and northern Africa in potential to recover investment in solar power generation. The study took into account various aspects, among which: purchase cost of energy; long term legislative commitment; construction, land and other costs for the implementation of the projects.
Averaging with 50% more than Germany, Bulgaria has excellent sun radiation rates combined with proper temperatures and offers significant terrains for implementation of projects, pretty much all over its map. General public is yet to be convinced that long term investment in solar will cut green house gas emissions, will contribute to cleaner environment, will earn energy independence from foreign oil and gas and in years to come it will contribute to much lower price rates in household energy prices.
But even that makes it hard to ignore the facts - it is always cheaper to cut on oil and gas usage and to develop clean energy! The major concerns of the public lay down with the political will to facilitate the usage of such energy sources, mainly, because the government has no initiatives to build solar power generation projects for the wide benefit of the society and therefor has not communicated such option.
Our study reveals that if the government invests up to 6 billion EUR (hardly 65% of the price to be paid for new nuclear power plant) in the development of such projects, even without the subsidized prices which are ensured by the law, the economy, the society and the environment will benefit significantly more than in the case with the usage of any other energy source available for wide and large scale use at the moment, at the beginning of 2012. Such an investment will create thousands of sustainable new jobs and will bring up the level of expertise of the business in the field - looked from direct economic perspective. In this year already, when solar tech is so developed and the the mass production of advanced technology is operating, such venture will, practically, be cheaper watt-per-watt than the construction of another nuclear power plant which by demand of the project is estimated to cost not less than 9.5 billion EUR.
'Satori' would like to introduce you to some of these technologies of 'now' rather than of the future.
In 2010 (updated in 2011) 'Satori Consulting' completed a study which indicates that the country is among top 5 countries in the southern Europe, and northern Africa in potential to recover investment in solar power generation. The study took into account various aspects, among which: purchase cost of energy; long term legislative commitment; construction, land and other costs for the implementation of the projects.
Averaging with 50% more than Germany, Bulgaria has excellent sun radiation rates combined with proper temperatures and offers significant terrains for implementation of projects, pretty much all over its map. General public is yet to be convinced that long term investment in solar will cut green house gas emissions, will contribute to cleaner environment, will earn energy independence from foreign oil and gas and in years to come it will contribute to much lower price rates in household energy prices.
But even that makes it hard to ignore the facts - it is always cheaper to cut on oil and gas usage and to develop clean energy! The major concerns of the public lay down with the political will to facilitate the usage of such energy sources, mainly, because the government has no initiatives to build solar power generation projects for the wide benefit of the society and therefor has not communicated such option.
Our study reveals that if the government invests up to 6 billion EUR (hardly 65% of the price to be paid for new nuclear power plant) in the development of such projects, even without the subsidized prices which are ensured by the law, the economy, the society and the environment will benefit significantly more than in the case with the usage of any other energy source available for wide and large scale use at the moment, at the beginning of 2012. Such an investment will create thousands of sustainable new jobs and will bring up the level of expertise of the business in the field - looked from direct economic perspective. In this year already, when solar tech is so developed and the the mass production of advanced technology is operating, such venture will, practically, be cheaper watt-per-watt than the construction of another nuclear power plant which by demand of the project is estimated to cost not less than 9.5 billion EUR.
'Satori' would like to introduce you to some of these technologies of 'now' rather than of the future.