UK Announces 4.3 Million Pound Investment in Space-Based Solar Power

UK Announces 4.3 Million Pound Investment in Space-Based Solar Power
Solar panels on the International Space Station, in an undated file photo. NASA
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The UK government is planning to invest 4.3 million pounds in the space-based solar power industry that has “huge potential to boost the UK’s energy security.”

Energy Security Secretary Grant Shapps announced the multimillion-pound government funding on June 13, saying he wants “the UK to boldly go where no country has gone before—boosting our energy security by getting our power directly from space.”

Evgenia Filimianova
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