Algeria will invest nearly US$20.5 billion over the next 20 years to boost electricity production from renewable energy sources - Nordine Bouterfa, head of Sonelgaz.

"Algeria will invest nearly US$20.5 billion over the next 20 years to boost electricity production from renewable energy sources," Nordine Bouterfa, the head of Sonelgaz group said.

Qatar Solar Technologies (QSTec), the first polysilicon production facility in the Middle East, will build a polysilicon plant worth US$1 billion in Ras Laffan Industrial City in north-east Qatar.

Dubai plans to reduce energy imports and climate warming carbon dioxide emissions by 30 per cent by 2030.

Dubai is poised to unveil a big solar power plant as part of a push to get five per cent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030, Saeed Mohammed Al-Tayer, vice chairman of Dubais Supreme Council of Energy, said.

A total of nine international companies and consortia have been shortlisted to build some of Syrias first wind farms as part of the government efforts to encourage foreign investment in the power-generation sector.