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Envision Solar Sees Middle East Potential
Envision Solar, which builds high-quality and architecturally stunning solar canopies, is expanding into the Middle East. The California company is partnering with Aconfort, a member of Al Habtoor Enterprises, to market its solar canopies in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Spain. “I have lived and worked in the Middle East,” said Desmond [...]
Can Solar Help The UAE Desalinate Water?
Countries under the Gulf Cooperation Council may soon have to look to the sun for help in powering desalination plants. Current systems require huge amounts of energy, are expensive and rather inefficient. It’s likely that they won’t last for more than 30 years which is why it’s being proposed that Gulf nations take help from [...]
Canadian Solar Lands Huge Abu Dhabi Solar Deal $CSIQ
Canadian Solar announced last week that it partnered with Al Fahad Group, a major energy supplier in the United Arab Emirates, to supply Abu Dhabi with 1.5 megawatts of new solar power. The partnership is the first business arrangement Canadian Solar has entered into with Al Fahad, said Canadian Solar spokesman Daniel Heck. But it [...]
Dubai solar polysilicon plant to complement UAE’s existing solar activities
MBM Holdings has announced the formation of MBM Solar Holding Inc.,which will build a 2500MT/a solar-grade polysilicon plant in the UAE.The planned polysilicon plant will have a total capacity of 2,500 tonsper annum of high quality solar-grade polysilicon product and isexpected to start production in early 2012. The project is being sponsored by MBM Holdings [...]
UAE Heroes of Carbon Footprint Reduction
Recently,I learned The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has the highest per capitaecological footprint in the world – if every person in the world livedand consumed natural resources like an average UAE resident, we wouldrequire 4.5 planets to sustain the consumption levels! More than 80% ofits carbon footprint is due to carbon intensive goods and services,such [...]
Mulk to build $81.5m solar panel factory
Mulk Holding, a UAE-based oil and construction conglomerate, is ready to break ground next month on a 300m dirham ($81.5m) solar panel factory in Sharjah, as interest in solar power continues to gain momentum in the sun-drenched Middle East. Mulk says the plant will have a production capacity of 200 megawatts (MW) and be brought [...]