The Saudi Arabian cabinet has given the go-ahead to an agreement signed with France two years ago on the peaceful use of nuclear energy in the country

Kuwait has granted Lebanon a US$85mn loan to upgrade and rehabilitate the Zouk and Jiyyeh power plants as part of efforts to overhaul the Levant countrys ailing electricity sector

China?s Suntech Power Holdings has announced the completion of construction work on Saudi Arabias largest solar power facility

As power demand across the GCC is likely to double by 2020 to 215GW, the potential exists for member states to generate at least 25GW of its energy from renewable sources by the end of the decade, according to a report by Frost & Sullivan