{"id":5076,"date":"2011-04-18T22:52:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T20:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/?p=5076"},"modified":"2011-04-18T22:52:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T20:52:29","slug":"desertec-gears-up-for-tunisian-office-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/desertec-gears-up-for-tunisian-office-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Desertec Gears up for Tunisian Office Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertec.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Desertec Industrial Initiative<\/a> representatives landed in Tunisia to discuss further plans of using <strong>solar energy from the Sahara<\/strong> to power the MENA region and transport excess energy to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Desertec will <strong>open<\/strong> an office in Tunisia to increase its development plans in the region. Executive Officer, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.efetnet.org\/efetnet\/content\/e10\/e93\/e244\/index_en.html\" target=\"_blank\">Paul van Son<\/a><\/strong> said in a statement: &#8220;A close JV with the Tunisian government will play a decisive role towards the implementation of the Desertec vision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/71\/DESERTEC-Map_large.jpg\/800px-DESERTEC-Map_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are going to actively involve the main <strong>European political and industry players<\/strong> in order to expedite the joint development of an economical and long lasting energy generation in the desert regions,&#8221; van Son said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: ae-africa.com,<\/p>\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desertec\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desertec Industrial Initiative representatives landed in Tunisia to discuss further plans of using solar energy from the Sahara to power the MENA region and transport excess energy to Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[994,1236,3659],"class_list":["post-5076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-desertec","tag-europe-africa-energy","tag-tunisia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}