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Nesser Lake in the South of Egypt is the second world's largest man-made lakes of length 500 km, and mean width about 6 km. It contains about 140 billion cubic meter from fresh and renewable water of salinity from 150 to 200 ppm.

The western coast of the Lake is empty flat desert, and the nominal annual insulation is more than 2500 kWh / m(2). This fact puts the lake, in certain classification criteria, on top among the most suitable areas world - wide for solar Hydrogen production.

The objective of the suggested project is the design, installation, and safe experimental operation of directly coupled 350 kW concentrated photovolatic advanced electrolysis system with compressed Hydrogen storage. The plant can be installed in the South of Aswan in Sahara Area near the High Dam at 20 km from Aswan Center on the western coast of Naseer lake. This plant will be pilot project, and can be extended to become large project for submitting Egypt and Europe by Hydrogen as renewable, clean, safe energy for the next century.

The module support structure is designed for the proposed site. A rough estimation to the cost of power plant is made. The cooperation of International Interested Institutions is explored.