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Deserted: Why solar power fails where it should shine

Deserted: Why solar power fails where it should shine

Update: 2025-11-21
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Some of the places hardest hit by climate change are also home to one of the future's most powerful gifts: superabundant sunshine. If solar is now cheaper than ever, what’s stopping the clean energy revolution from taking off where the sun shines the brightest? In Part 1 of our special miniseries, The Switch, we head to Morocco in search of the promise, and the politics, of desert power.
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Deserted: Why solar power fails where it should shine

Deserted: Why solar power fails where it should shine

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