{"id":107781,"date":"2020-05-28T18:42:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T01:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/no-joke-algeria-plans-4-gigawatt-5-year-solar-power-initiative"},"modified":"2020-05-28T18:42:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T01:42:28","slug":"no-joke-algeria-plans-4-gigawatt-5-year-solar-power-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/no-joke-algeria-plans-4-gigawatt-5-year-solar-power-initiative","title":{"rendered":"No Joke \u2014 Algeria Plans 4 Gigawatt, 5 Year Solar Power Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qwgkwqKpywU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Make no small plans. That seems to be the logic among the leaders of Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>For some perspective, I just wrote about the corporate behemoth Amazon, which hopes to get to <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2020\/05\/27\/amazon-going-solar-big-time\/\">100% renewable electricity by 2025 (firm target of 2030)<\/a> and has a whopping total of 31 utility-scale wind and solar power plants built or planned that add up to 2,900 MW of total power capacity. That\u2019s 2.3 gigawatts (GW). Algeria is talking about building <em>4 gigawatts<\/em> of solar power capacity in 5 years. That\u2019s a pretty stunning target.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria does have a population of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/world-population\/algeria-population\/\">44 million<\/a>, making it the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population\">32nd<\/a> most populous country in the world. It also has ample sunshine. Nonetheless, 4 GW means increasing the country\u2019s solar power capacity 10 times over, and that solar power capacity hasn\u2019t changed much in the past 3 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make no small plans. That seems to be the logic among the leaders of Algeria. For some perspective, I just wrote about the corporate behemoth Amazon, which hopes to get to 100% renewable electricity by 2025 (firm target of 2030) and has a whopping total of 31 utility-scale wind and solar power plants built or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}