Space-Based Solar Power Could Reach the Grid by 2028
Macron Calls for Another Emergency Oil Release as Europe Loses Supply Haley Zaremba is an energy journalist and researcher with more than a decade of professional experience covering global energy systems, land and natural resources, and… The artificial intelligence energy crisis is catalyzing the development pipeline for space-based solar energy.
As the world rushes to build up more energy production capacity in a scramble to keep up with skyrocketing demand from data center hyperscalers, the public and private sectors alike are increasingly adopting an all-of-the-above approach to energy investing, including next-gen and emerging technologies like putting solar panels into space, where they can access sunlight 24 hours a day.
The idea is this: by putting solar panels into orbit, the sun will never set on them, thereby solving the biggest problem associated with solar energy – its intermittency.
The energy captured by those solar satellites would then be beamed back down to Earth through the use of powerful lasers or through microwave beams, depending on thetechnologybeing applied.
Space-based solar is not a new idea; scientists have been working on developing a logistically and commercially feasible model for decades now.
But with the new influx of interest and investing dollars coming from the tech sector, it might finally be time for that vision to become a reality.
A small but growing group of startups think that they will be able to begin operations in just a handful of years.
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One of those startups is Virginia’s Overview Energy.
The company, which is setting up operations in one of the states struggling the most intensely with energy price hikes driven by sprawling data center campuses, thinks that it could beam solar power to the grid all the way from space as early as January 2028.
“We really believe that we are able to provide utility-scale power with this technology,” co-CEO Darko Filipi recentlytoldtheWashington Post.And that’s not all.
Filipi estimates that his company alone could supply one-fourth of the country’s energy demand growth over the next decade.
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