UK offshore ‘best location’ for giant space solar project

UK offshore ‘best location’ for giant space solar project

Alongside offshore oil, gas, wind and hydrogen, the North Sea could play host to space-based solar collectors under plans proposed by a UK technology developer.

UK-based Space Solar has plans to use solar power-gathering satellites in orbit, which would beam energy via radio waves to receiving stations on Earth.

Its proposals were lent government backing last week after a meeting between UK Business Secretary Grant Shapps and Saudi Arabian Space Commission chairman and communications minister Abdullah Al-Swaha, in which the firm was namechecked as part of a potential collaboration with the Kingdom on space-based solar power.