Under the Arabian sun, a monumental construction effort is making headway. Located deep within Dubai’s desert interior, the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park — named after the emirate’s ruler and the United Arab Emirate’s vice president and prime minister — continues to grow and has just passed another milestone. In its eighth year […]
Dubai selected to host first-ever MENA Climate Week 2020 coinciding with Expo 2020
HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Chairman of the World Green Economy Organization (WGEO) has announced that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat has chosen Dubai, the United Arab Emirates to host the MENA Climate Week 2020, the first of its kind climate event to be held in the Middle East and […]
Emicool, Total launch solar plant at Dubai Investment Park
Emirates District Cooling (Emicool) said it has joined hands with Total Solar Distributed Generation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of French energy giant Total mainly dedicated to the development of distributed solar energy solutions for commercial and industrial partners, for a key solar system at the Dubai Investment Park (DIP). A leading district cooling service provider in […]
Phanes Group Selects Huawei Smart PV Solution to Power the Largest Distributed Solar Project in UAE
Dubai, UAE: Phanes Group, an international end-to-end solar provider headquartered in Dubai UAE, has partnered with Huawei to deliver the UAE’s first medium voltage (MV) rooftop connection solar project. The 25.8 MW distributed rooftop project was developed for DP World – the 2nd largest port operator worldwide. This is currently the largest distributed development in […]
Record low bids for DEWA’s latest solar offer
Solar prices fall to new record low in Saudi-led bid for 900MW Dubai project A consortium led by Saudi Arabia-based ACWA Power has reportedly lodged a world record low price bid of $16.953 ($A25) a megawatt hour for a 900MW solar park in Dubai. The bid – reported by infrastructure journal IJGlobal – is one […]
Cleanmax Solar fits 1,200kWp solar plant at Danube hub in Dubai
Indian rooftop solar power provider’s work at Danube Group’s Techno Park facility in Dubai to cut 845t of annual CO2 emissions Indian rooftop solar power provider Cleanmax solar revealed it had partnered with Dubai’s Rizwan Sajan-founded Danube Group to commission a 1,200kWp rooftop solar plant at the building materials company’s manufacturing facility at Techno Park, […]
Dewa, Nestlé Middle East open 10GWh Shams Dubai solar plant
28,000 PV panels fitted across three Nestlé sites in Al Maha to eliminate six million kg of CO2 each year. Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) and Nestlé Middle East have inaugurated the UAE’s largest ground-mounted private solar plant, featuring 28,000 photovoltaic (PV) panels across three of the latter’s manufacturing sites in Al Maha to […]
DEWA developing clean solar energy programme to drive Dubai growth
Integrated programme will allow a tenth of citizens’ homes to be self-sufficient in terms of water, food and energy Dubai is developing an integrated programme to build a comprehensive system that will allow a tenth of its citizens’ homes to be self-sufficient in terms of water, food and energy, mainly with the help of clean […]
Dubai Achieves 19% Reduction in Net CO2 Emissions
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: In conjunction with the convening of the preparatory conference for the UN 2019 Climate Summit (COP 25) in Abu Dhabi, the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy announced that the net CO2 emissions of Dubai have decreased by 19% compared to the business as usual (BAU) scenario and 10% below the Carbon […]
ZNSHINE supplies 100MW pv modules for DEWA projects in Dubai
CHANGZHOU, China: Znshine PV tech, a tier one Chinese solar module manufacturer, is proud to announce the signature of a 100MW solar module supply agreement with Etihad Energy services as a result of participation of Znshine in the tender launched by DEWA (Dubai Electricity and Water Authority) in January. “We are proud to have won […]