“Greater Earth Lunar Power Station” (GE⊕-LPS) (*) manufactured on the Moon and assembled at the Earth-Moon Lagrange Point 1 to provide power from lunar orbit to operations on the surface of the Moon. Once the initial station is in operation, the production facilities on the lunar surface could be then used to produce additional Solar Power Satellites (SPS) to be shipped into Earth orbits to deliver clean baseload solar energy to Earth.

This ‘Space Energy Option’ would contribute to a massive reduction of the use of fossil fuels for energy production on the way towards meeting international climate and energy targets. The GE⊕-LPS is a crewed facility in lunar orbit that will be constructed primarily from lunar materials. Shown to be both feasible and scalable, manufacturing future SPS components from lunar materials and transporting these to geostationary orbit (GEO), would be a means to avoid the need to launch hundreds or thousands of massive SPSs from the surface of the Earth in order to supply environmentally benign, baseload electricity to Earth.

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