The cost of solar panels have reduced by 60 per cent since 2011, further encouraging Dubai to increase its renewable energy targets. (Image source: InhaitatBlog/Flickr)

Dubai has tripled its target to 15 per cent in a bid to increase the share of renewables in its energy mix by 2030 and has also increased its 2020 target by seven times to seven per cent

Access Infra Africa will develop four 200MW solar plants and two 100MW wind plants in Egypt. (Image source: BrentDanley/Flickr)

Dubai?s Access Infra Africa is leading a consortium that is expected to develop six solar and wind plants in Egypt, to boost its power generation capacity

The UAE?s Petroleum Institute team makes its way through the Shams 1 power plant. (Image source: ADSC)

Engineering university Petroleum Institute?s creation solar-powered car reached Shams 1 ? Abu Dhabi?s large-scale concentrated solar power plant located in Al Gharbiya ? on Sunday

The Ouarzazate project is part of the Moroccan governments plan to produce 2GW of electricity by 2020. (Image source: UN/Flickr)

A consortium led by ACWA Power International has a won a US$2bn contract to construct two solar plants in Ouarzazate in southern Morocco