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Adriana M Valencia has a PhD and a Masters in Science from the University of California, Berkeley in Energy and Resources. She has several years of multi-regional work experience in the environmental and renewable energy fields in various organizations.
Originally posted June 2011
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region provides excellent conditions for the development of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP),[1] notably much irradiation and unused flat land[2] in close proximity to road networks and some transmission lines. Hence, a number of initiatives are underway to scale-up several donors are jointly launching a program to scale-up CSP in the MENA to several gigawatt (GW) over the next decade.[3]
