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.

Torresol Energy, a joint venture between Masdar, Abu Dhabis leading future energy company, and SENER, the leading Spanish engineering and construction firm, recently announced the commissioning of its flagship 19.9MW Gemasolar Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant in Seville, Spain.

Belectric and Sun & Life are building Saudi Arabias largest solar power plant in Dhahran.

Masdar succeeded in getting US$615mn in financing from banks for the worlds biggest concentrated solar power plant (CSP).