In Heart of the Sahara, GE’s Aeroderivative Gas Turbines Are Generating Electricity and Enabling Renewables | GE News

In Heart of the Sahara, GE’s Aeroderivative Gas Turbines Are Generating Electricity and Enabling Renewables | GE News
Tamanrasset, an Algerian city of nearly 100,000 inhabitants in the heart of the immense Sahara Desert, seems like it’s far from everything when observed on a map. Located around 2,000 kilometers (some 1,200 miles) from the capital, Algiers, Tamanrasset is connected to the rest of the world mainly by the trans-Saharan road that crosses the largest desert in the world, from northern Algeria to Niger and beyond to the south. Food is transported mainly by road and sometimes by plane. But what about another resource that is indispensable: electricity?

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