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KeywordsRenewable energies Solar energy Electricity production Renewable energy Act Renewable energy program declaration of energy partnership Algeria Germany.This study aims to reveal the reality of the Algerian experience in the exploitation of solar energy, considering that Algeria is a large country in terms of space and climate capabilities that allow it to attract this kind of renewable energies. The study also observes the German experience in this field in order to benefit from it; thus, it relied upon the analytical descriptive approach. The results of the study showed the limited exploitation of this type of energy in Algeria. Despite the gradual improvement in the use of solar energy, mainly since 2015, this improvement is not as expected as it recorded an output of 244.1 MW in 2016, and the output did not exceed 400 MW until the end of 2017. This is despite the tendency of Algeria in activating and assimilating solar energy and developing its exploitation as an alternative energy for fossil energy, which comes as a priority within the National Renewable Energy Program 2015-2030. The results of the study also showed the high level achieved by Germany in the exploitation of solar energy despite the obstacles encountered where the country is cloudy. Germany's solar power capacity reached 40988 MW in 2016 after it was within 114 MW in 2000. This would not have been achieved in Germany in the absence of the promotion of investment in renewable solar energy and consumption, where the growth rate of solar energy consumption reached about 9% in 2016, but in Algeria remains very modest, as less than 0.05%. Contribution/Originality: The paper's primary contribution is giving a clear vision about the possibility of strengthening the partnership between Germany's technical development as the largest generator of electric energy from sunlight in the world, and Algeria's abundant potential as the largest solar energy reservoir in the world.
INTRODUCTIONAgainst the backdrop of the serious and scientifically justifiable consequences of climate change (temperature rise, floods, droughts, Arctic ice melting and the extinction of species), and in light of the increasing global consumption of conventional energy sources, renewable and environmental alternatives energy are becoming increasingly important. For instance, air, water, sun, biomass and geothermal heat, are all available energy sources without limits, and do not cause any harmful gases to the environment. One of the most important types of renewable energy is the solar energy. The energy that the sun provides for earth in just one hour exceeds that of the energy used in the entire year all around the world. Furthermore, the use of the sun as an energy source is not modern, but today it is among the alternative sources of oil, on which future hopes are held, since it is a clean and inexhaustible energy.Renewable energies have been increasing in the world since 2009, with an annual growth rate of 8-9% recorded at record levels by the end of 2016, ...