Around 3 years ago, I reported about the possibility of a european super-grid which would import energy from as far afield as Africa and Iceland.
That grid has come a step closer with the opening, next month (December 2015) of a solar thermal plant in Morocco which aims to provide electric to a million of it's citizens. This is just the first step in an ambitious plan to exploit the country's natural resources: Winds off the Atlantic and solar energy in Morocco's part of the Sahara.
The plant will eventually provide electric for 20 hours of the day (thanks to energy storage) and Morocco as a whole will have enough excess electric to start supplying Europe.
More here.
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