Gurmeet Kaur is the Marketing & Communication Director at MESIA. (Image source: MESIA)

Recent reports are rife with the increasing number of solar projects in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. Besides, each country is competing with the other to build the biggest solar park in the world. Technical Review Middle East speaks with Gurmeet Kaur, Marketing & Communication Director at Middle East Solar Industry Association (MESIA), to understand if the countries have the support to fulfil their expectations

According to Dr Raed Kombargi, partner with Strategy& Middle East, the case for rapid deployment of renewable energy in the GCC is compelling.

The GCC states show great promise for renewable energy deployment, according to a recent study by management consultancy Strategy& Middle East, part of the PwC network and to unlock this potential, GCC governments must develop a carefully planned framework and make careful decisions

Sami Huneidi, general manager of Arabian Industrial Gases, with Jeremy Crane, CEO and Co-founder of Yellow Door Energy. (Image source: Yellow Door Energy)

Yellow Door Energy and Arabian Industrial Gases have signed a 20-year lease to provide solar power for the latter?s manufacturing facility in Dubai Investments Park, making it Yellow Door Energy?s 10^th solar lease in Dubai under the Shams Dubai net metering scheme

Renewables are set to be the fastest-growing source of electrical energy generation in the next five years. (Image source: Myriams-fotos/Pixabay)

Energy sector investments in big data technologies have exploded. In fact, according to a study by BDO, the industry?s expenditure on this technology in 2017 has increased by ten times compared to the previous year, with the firm attributing much of this growth to the need for improved management of renewables