MESIA suggests that solar PV can provide a competitive alternative to conventional peak load generation assets. (Image source: Fran Gambín/Pixabay)
The Middle East Solar Industry Association (MESIA) has predicted that the MENA region will tender as much as 4 GW of solar energy projects in 2016
Qatar has the world?s third-largest reserves of natural gas, and demand for electricity and water is soaring in line with the country?s rapid economic growth. (Image Source: RoPlant/Flickr)
Yokogawa Electric Korea (YEK) and Yokogawa Solution Service Corporation (YSS) ? subsidiaries of Yokogawa Electric Corporation (YEC) ? have received orders to provide control systems for thermal power and desalination plants to be constructed for Qatar?s Umm Al Houl Power
First Solar has a projected installed capacity of at least 270MW across the Middle East region by 2017. (Image Source: IFC Infrastructure/Flickr)
First Solar and Al Watania Agriculture Company have announced completion of a pilot project to evaluate the use of solar electricity for sustainable power irrigation at a large farm in Saudi Arabia
UAEs Hassyan Clean Coal Power Plant project and Egypts Dairut Combined Cycle Power Project will be covered under the memorandum. (Image source: PEO ACWA/Flickr)
ACWA Power signed an MoU with Silk Road Fund Co. Ltd. at a ceremony in Riyadh on 19 January to explore joint investment and power project development prospects in the MENA region
The bioenergy facility under construction in Abu Dhabi. (Image source: Masdar)
The Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC) has announced that in March 2016, it will begin operating the world?s first bioenergy research facility using desert land ? irrigated by seawater ? to produce both food and aviation fuels
