Abu Dhabi, capital city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), will be the start and finish of the first solar-powered flight around the world, which co-founders and pilots, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg are planning to undertake in March 2015 with Solar Impulse 2. The announcement was made in New...

Dubai Electricity and Water has shortlisted developers for the tender for the 100MW second phase of Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. The tender is to be awarded to Independent Power Producer (IPP), the qualification process for applicants began in May, with 24 developers shortlisted, out of...

Trina Solar Limited (“TSL”), a global leader in photovoltaic modules, solutions and services, announced today that it has recently reached an agreement to supply 1MW of Trina Honey photovoltaic modules to Mustakbal Clean Tech (“Mustakbal”), a EPC specialist focused on the Middle...

Source: Morgan Solar, used under Creative Commons license. Dubai-based investment company Adenium Capital has purchased a 24MW solar farm in Italy. The €52 million (US$69 million) acquisition, in partnership with ForVEI, almost doubles the capacity of its solar portfolio. Solar Farm is a large land...

Middle East has been recently bullish about clean tech. Significant investments in renewable energy infrastructure has given it a boost. A recent white paper released by Frost and Sullivan shows that Kuwait will have 10% of its energy requirements sourced from clean technologies. Solar energy is being...

Creative Commons “Wind Power” by Timothy Tolle The MENA region is one of the few regions in the world where renewable energy investment seems to be weathering the global economic crisis. New investment in renewables in the region totaled USD 2.9 billion in 2012, an increase of almost 40% over 2011...