ABSTRACT This report presents the results of a six-months study on implications of the potential electricity supply for Western Europe by Solar Power Satellites (SPS) and of their implementation problems around the turn of the century. Three objectives in this scope have been pursued to provide a decision platform for on-going study and research activities: (a) to establish an information base including relevant data collection and basic SPS-systems understanding, (b) to identify and preliminarily assess specific European problems of SPS utilisation, and (c) to accomplish recommendations for early study activities of particular European concern. The last item is directly derived from the evaluations of the second study objective and must be seen in the context with SPS activities of the USA. The authors conclude that the special European environment calls for special European utilisation feasibility analyses, while the principle technical feasibility of a SPS-system should be taken over from U.S. studies. Moreover, if the USA stop their activities, an implementation of a SPS-sytem for Western Europe would be principally impractical in the considered time frame (2000 - 2030). Keywords: ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS / ENERGY POLICY / ENERGY TECHNOLOGY / ENVIRONMENT EFFECTS / MICROWAVE TRANSMISSION / SATELLITE POWER TRANSMISSION (TO EARTH) / SATELLITE SOLAR POWER STATIONS / SPACE PROGRAMS / SPACE TRANSPORTATION / TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
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