Vivek Chaturvedi is DSM?s regional business director. (Image source: Technical Review Middle East)

The Middle East region is one of the most attractive markets for the upcoming solar and PV sector. According to the 2019 Middle East Solar Industry Association (MESIA) released yesterday at the Solar Forum during WFES 2019, rapid innovation has allowed solar technologies to evolve quickly and cheap, thus enabling solar energy to become a competitive power generation source

The US$500mn wind farm will generate enough power to supply up to 70,000 Saudi households. (Image source: Markus Distelrath/Pixabay)

The Renewable Energy Project Development Office (REPDO) of Saudi Arabia?s Ministry of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources (MEIM) has awarded its Dumat Al Jandal wind project to the consortium led by EDF Energies Nouvelles and Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar)

Jointly developed by Masdar, Hafilat Industry LLC and Siemens Middle East, Eco-Bus seats 30 passengers and has a range of 150km per battery charge. (Image source: Masdar)

Masdar, the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, has officially launched the first fully electric passenger bus ? Eco-Bus ? in the region in partnership with the department of transport in Abu Dhabi (DoT), Abu Dhabi-based bus manufacturer Hafilat Industry LLC, and Siemens

The use of rooftop PV in Iraq among home and shop owners has increased significantly within the past two years especially in the northern area of Iraq to tackle power outages. (Image source: andreas160578/Pixabay)

Iraq is seeking to diversify its energy dependency by building large-scale solar, wind and biomass facilities within the next decade, expecting to supply more than 10 per cent of its energy needs by 2028 from sustainable resources, according to Frost & Sullivan?s energy analysis