Will UK homes soon be powered by Tunisian sunshine?

An 'ambitious' new plan could see the UK importing cheap solar energy from North Africa by 2018

Solar power project in North Africa

Investors have approached the government for funding to help import large amount of solar power from the Sahara desert in North Africa.

The proposed plan has been developed by the joint-venture project TuNur, which believes that up to 2.5 million UK homes could be powered by solar energy from Tunisia by 2018, the BBC reports.

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