Sahara Desert of North Africa across the Mediterranean sea is recognized worldwide as the most sunshine on Earth region, the EU had attached great importance to cooperation with North Africa and plans to the Sahara Desert in North Africa to build the human history of unprecedented scale solar power stations, power capacity and far distance transported to the heart of Europe. European countries initially enthusiastic Desert plan, but in the end, but an end to the lack of a common investment.

The EU has put forward an ambitious Desert Plan was introduced in 2009, with a budget of 400 billion euros ($ 560 billion), a bold vision to build a pipeline from the Sahara desert exports to the Mediterranean clean of the high-voltage transmission grid. This requires the construction of solar charge controller power plants in a radius of 2,500 square kilometers of desert, and the construction of large transmission lines. German Nobel Laureate Hartmut Michelle even think that this would provide enough energy for all mankind.

The desert plan also includes a building covering a wider range of European super grid covering the North Sea wind turbine power generation, Scandinavian Peninsula hydropower, Iceland geothermal power, biomass power generation in Eastern Europe as well as solar power. This will improve European enough clean energy.

But the desert plan two largest industrial giant Siemens as leaders, and the world's largest auto parts supplier Bosch announced its withdrawal. The desert plan originally long a list of partners now, leaving only Deutsche Bank, Munich Reinsurance Company, the Yusin Bank, Italy, concern Rheinland.

The EU and the Mediterranean coast of North Africa, the Middle East, a total of 43 countries, both developed "Mediterranean Solar Plan, will invest 38 billion euros to 46 billion euros over the next 20 years will be the development of solar energy industry. "Mediterranean solar panel Plan", was officially launched in 2008, is an important part of the EU and the countries bordering the Mediterranean energy cooperation, involving 43 countries, including the EU countries. The plan hopes Mediterranean neighboring countries to improve the ability of solar power, exports to the EU countries.

EU support to the Government of Morocco to develop the country's solar cell energy development plan, the plan will be implemented in five places in Morocco, which the first project in the the Moroccan middle of the desert city of Ouarzazate, in 2015, 500 MW solar power production capacity. The program is the largest photovoltaic project in the Mediterranean solar plan.

November 19, 2012, the European Investment Bank (EIB), the French Development Department (AFD), the German KfW (KfW Entwicklungsbank) and Morocco solar Administration (MASEN) signed a loan of 300 million euros in the Moroccan city of Marrakech agreements. Earlier, the European Union provided for the project in December 2011, 30 million euros of funding. These grant and loan will be used to Morocco Ouarzazate solar power system is the first phase of construction, including the parabolic trough solar collector installed capacity of 125-160 MW power station (Parabolic-trough CSP) and can be stored in three hour of electricity storage facilities.