The Middle East has long held enormous promise as a renewable energy powerhouse.
| | | | The greening of the land of black gold January 2018 The Middle East has long held enormous promise as a renewable energy powerhouse. But due to its vast and cheaply tapped oil resources and entrenched hydrocarbon-based energy policies, promise – to this point – has remained just that. However, to judge by this year’s World Future Energy Summit, meaningful change in the region is finally starting to mirror the world-wide Energy Transition now afoot. Read Recharge’s unrivalled coverage from last week’s event in Abu Dhabi. |
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| | The land of black gold is finally turning green AGENDA | The World Future Energy Summit confirmed that a renewables revolution is set to sweep the symbolic home of global oil, writes Darius Snieckus Read more |
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| | Wind and PV power to fall to $0.03/kWh by 2020: Irena Wind and PV projects could be flowing electricity at $0.03/kWh or less inside the next two years as cost trajectories continue their precipitous decline, according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena). Read more |
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| | Solar to lead Middle East renewables to 100GW by 2035: study Power generation from renewables in the Middle East will skyrocket to 100GW by 2035 as the region’s demand swells to accommodate economic diversification and a rapidly growing population in the UAE, according to a new report from global industrial giant Siemens and Abu Dhabi clean energy group Masdar. Read more |
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| | Masdar, Elsewedy and Marubeni plan 800MW of wind in Egypt Abu Dhabi renewables company Masdar has signed a collaboration deal with Middle East energy infrastructure company Elsewedy Electric and Japanese developer Marubeni to build an 800MW wind power portfolio in Egypt. Read more |
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| | ACWA Power pioneers SolarCoin cryptocurrency ACWA Power has become the first utility-scale energy generator to adopt the SolarCoin – a blockchain-based cryptocurrency paid out for solar power production – for its operations around the world. Read more |
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