Middle East & Africa

The largest solar panel project in Saudi Arabia: This is how we will face Chinese competition – EQ Mag Pro

November 24, 2021 Anand Gupta

Fahd bin Omairah, CEO of bin Omairah Holding Company, which is building the largest solar panel factory in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East confirmed that the company has a strategy that is based on several factors, to face the competition in general, in especially the Chinese one in cost matters. Bin Amira said in […]

Middle East & Africa

Israel and Jordan sign a huge agreement between the UAE to swap solar energy and water – EQ Mag Pro

November 23, 2021 Anand Gupta

Israel and Jordan on Monday signed their largest co-operation agreement to date, which will include the construction of a major solar power plant in the Hashemite kingdom to generate electricity for the Jewish state, while a desalination plant established in Israel will send water to Jordan. The agreement was mediated by the United Arab Emirates, […]

Solar plants, electric lines sounding death knell of GIB

Middle East & Africa

Israel Looks Next Door to Build Solar Plants And Cut Emissions – EQ Mag Pro

November 18, 2021 Anand Gupta

Israel is in talks to build solar energy plants in neighboring countries as part of its plans to cut carbon emissions and bolster its green technology sector. Discussions are underway for potential joint projects in Jordan, Egypt, Greece, Cyprus and countries further afield, said Yair Pines, director general of the prime minister’s office. Progress depends […]

Middle East & Africa

IBM, Amazon Web Services Join Forces to Help Oil & Gas Industry Accelerate Energy Transition – EQ Mag Pro

November 16, 2021 Anand Gupta

Collaboration Will Bring Together AWS and IBM Open Data for Industries for a Comprehensive OSDU™ Data Solution ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates : Today at ADIPEC, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced the two companies will combine the benefits of IBM Open Data for Industries […]

Middle East & Africa

South Africa: African Development Bank approves $57.67 million loan to Eskom to boost electricity generation from renewable sources – EQ Mag Pro

November 1, 2021 Anand Gupta

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has approved a $57.67 million loan to Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, South Africa’s public electricity utility—and Africa’s largest— to harness battery storage technology that will increase electricity generation from reliable and efficient renewable energy sources. The Bank’s financing, a concessional loan, will come from the Clean […]

France approves 1.7 GW of wind and solar power projects

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Mainstream Renewable Power and Partners Awarded 1.27 GW of New Wind and Solar Projects in South Africa – EQ Mag Pro

October 30, 2021 Anand Gupta

Mainstream Renewable Power (“Mainstream”), the global wind and solar company majority-owned by Aker Horizons, announces today that twelve of its projects have won preferred bidder status in Round 5 of South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP). The wind and solar projects have a total capacity of 1.27 GW and represent half […]

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)

Middle East & Africa

South Africa Picks Bids for $3 Billion of Renewable Projects – EQ Mag Pro

October 30, 2021 Anand Gupta

South Africa picked 25 wind- and solar-power projects to be built by private developers, part of a plan to reduce the nation’s reliance on coal for electricity and end rolling blackouts that are curbing economic growth. The bidders will add 2,583 megawatts of capacity to the grid using clean-energy technologies, Mineral Resources and Energy Minister […]

Middle East & Africa

Scientists urge speedy switch to renewables in Middle East

October 13, 2021 Anand Gupta

Governments have to make the switch within the next two decades to avert potentially “irreversible effects” such as desertification. NICOSIA, Cyprus: A climate change conference will underscore to policymakers in the Middle East and the east Mediterranean that the switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is needed urgently because greenhouse gas emissions are […]

Some of the participants in the Saudi delegation

Middle East & Africa

Saudi Solar Company Expands its Investments to France, Greece and Kazakhstan

October 11, 2021 Anand Gupta

Desert Technologies, one of the world’s leading companies in the field of renewable energy, recently signed an agreement with contracting companies for the construction of a 12 MW solar photovoltaic plant on the Greek island of Trifyila. The project is Desert Technologies’ first investment in the Greek market with a capacity of 12 MW and […]

Britain announces biggest round of its renewable energy scheme

Middle East & Africa

South Africa Miners Back Gradual Move Away From Coal-Fired Power – EQ Mag Pro

September 28, 2021 Anand Gupta

South Africa’s mining industry has given its backing to moving the continent’s most developed economy away from coal but said it must be done gradually and responsibly. In a presentation to the country’s Presidential Climate Change Coordinating Commission late last week the main body representing the industry said that 60% of the country’s $302 billion […]