Various government agencies in Saudi Arabia are currently assessing the renewable energy potential in places where plants could be set up. (Image source: PinkDispatcher/Flickr)

Saudi Arabia?s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has announced plans to start producing desalinated water using solar energy by 2014

ACWA Power is bidding for a 100MW solar power project in Saudi Arabia, going up against a consortium led by Electricite de France. (Image source: Wikimedia commons)

ACWA Power is bidding for renewable energy projects worth US$3bn in the Middle East and North Africa region, that includes a 100 MW solar power plant in Mecca, Saudi Arabia

The production at the Siwa solar plant would be three times more than province?s current plant capacity. (Image source: Dave Dugdale/Flickr)

The governor of Egypts Matrouh province has announced that a UAE fund has donated close to US$150,000 towards an upcoming 20 MW solar power plant project in Siwa

The first joint step of the two firms will be setting up a 100MW solar power plant. (Image source: russf/Flickr)

Chinese energy giant NARI group has inked a US$3bn investment deal with Turkey?s CS group to jointly enter into the Middle East and Turkish energy markets, starting with a solar power generation project