Sudan's Solar Potential: How Sunlight Can Rebuild a Nation
6-8 kWh/m2 per day - among the highest solar irradiance on Earth Sudan receives between 6 and 8 kilowatt-hours of solar energy per square metre per day – among the highest figures anywhere on the planet. The Nubian Desert, the Butana Plain, the Bayuda steppe: vast, flat, cloudless, and bathed in sunlight for 300 or more days a year. This is not a marginal resource. It is one of the largest untapped solar endowments in the world, sitting in a country that has, for most of its modern history, been unable to keep the lights on. ...