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Solar is Hot in the Middle East
Plans are underway in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to build the Middle East’s largest solar power plant of its kind. The Shams 1 Solar Project, will be a 100-megawatt, concentrated solar power plant capable of powering 20,000 homes. Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, the UAE’s Special Envoy for Energy and Climate Change and the chief executive [...]
Report: World Not Ready to Transition to Renewable Energy Systems
The world is still a long way away from being able to meet its energy needs sustainably, says a new report released this week at the COP 18 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar. While most climate experts believe that carbon emissions must be cut drastically to avoid the most catastrophic effects of [...]
Qatar Makes Huge Solar Target: 18% of Energy Output by 2018
Qatar is aiming to generate 16% of its electricity from solar power by 2018, according to Fahad Bin Mohammed al-Attiya, chairman of the organizers of the climate change conference in Doha. Qatar, an OPEC nation, currently has the highest per capita greenhouse gas emissions in the world, and is the world’s current top exporter of [...]
Qatar Solar Technologies Lands $1B in Financing
Qatar Solar Technologies (QSTec) announced the financing from Masraf Al Rayan Bank for the construction of a brand new $1 billion polysilicon manufacturing plant. As reported in PVTech, the plant will be located in Ras Laffan Industrial City and have the ability to produce over 8,000 metric tons of polysilicon annually, which would produce enough [...]
Qatar to Build $1B Polysilicon Manufacturing Plant
Qatar Solar Technologies (QSTec) has announced it will build a US$1 billion polysilicon manufacturing plant in Ras Laffan Industrial City. The plant is expected to produce 8,000 metric tons of polysilicon per year. QSTec expects the facility to be operational in the second half of 2013. Dr. Khalid K Al Hajri, CEO of QSTec said the [...]
Qatar to Cool World Cup Stadiums with Solar
“Scorching desert rays to power air conditioning systems” sounds like an oxymoron. But that’s exactly what’s going to happen in five soccerstadiums in Qatar in 2022, when the country will become the first Middle East country to ever host the World Cup. Qatar’s winning bid was announced today at a FIFA press conference in Zurich, Switzerland, [...]
Solar World Cup Stadium for Qatar from Foster + Partners
The FIFA World Cup may be over, but the obsession and affection forthe game is such that nations have already battling it out for one thatstarts in 12 years. Qatar is bidding to host the World Cup in 2022, andgetting the “Lusail Iconic Stadium” design at this point in time iscertainly an added advantage. Designed [...]
Qatar Proposes Solar Stadiums for World Cup 2022
South Africa left the world amazed with its hi-tech 2010 Quantumfootball stadium. While we enjoy the quadrennial gaming splendor, worldhas already set its eyes on World Cup 2022. Qatar has promised threestrikingly wonderful stadiums for the 2022 event in an apparent attemptto bolster its chances for hosting the event. The proposed soccerstadiums intend to import [...]
SolarWorld concludes JV with Qatar Foundation
SolarWorld is acquiring a 29 percent stake in the newly founded jointventure Qatar Solar Technologies headquartered in the Emirate of Qatar. The joint venture will establish the first production facilityfor polysilicon on the Arabian Peninsula. Partners are the QatarFoundation (70 percent) and the Qatar Development Bank (1 percent). QatarSolar Technologies will invest a total of [...]