section_path: Emerging technologies/Others/Space-based solar power
section_name: Space-based solar power
paragraph_text: Space-based solar power
  
  There have been numerous proposals for space-based solar power, in which very large satellites with photovoltaic panels would be equipped with microwave transmitters to beam power back to terrestrial receivers. A 2024 study by the NASA Office of Science and Technology Policy examined the concept and concluded that with current and near-future technologies it would be economically uncompetitive.