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Renewable energy in Qatar

  • World’s leading gas exporter wants to become champion of renewable energy

    QATAR, 2017/03/04

  • Solar energy to meet 20% of Qatar's energy demand by 2030

    QATAR, 2016/07/10 Qatar could focus additional on the implementation of rooftop solar solutions to address the request for electricity, particularly during the peak season, a top official of Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (Qeeri) has said. "One area where the implementation of solar technologies could accelerate rapidly is that of rooftop solar (solutions)," Dr Khalid al-Subai, acting executive director of Qeeri, told us. Al-Subai explained that in Qatar, "solar intensity and cooling request track very closely", particularly during the summer months. "Thus, rooftop solar could become very cost-effective in lowering peak electricity request, which is very significant to Qatar's utilities," he said. "Dubai recently committed to a target of 100% rooftop solar (solutions) by 2030, and other states within the GCC could well follow Dubai's lead."

  • Kazakhstan to cooperate with Qatar, Japan in renewable energy sector

    JAPAN, 2015/10/29 Kazakhstan's Kazatomprom Company has signed an agreement on cooperation with Qatar in solar energy development. Kazatomprom reported on October 28 that a framework agreement on a joint venture in the field of solar energy was signed with Qatar Solar Energy. According to the agreement, Kazatomprom is becoming a strategic shareholder of the Qatari company and is able to expand the chain of production of solar panels from raw materials to the electricity generation, to increase the production capacity of existing enterprises and to start producing ingots and cells with a capacity up to 1,000 MW.

  • QSE Opens Enormous Solar Panel Factory In Qatar

    QATAR, 2015/04/26 Qatar Solar Energy has launched an enormous solar panel factory in Qatar, and they even want to expand production further to 2.5 GW. Qatar, a country located halfway down the west coast of the Arabian Gulf, has an arid climate and long summers. Qatar receives 11 hours of sunshine per day in May (at the same time as summer begins), 11 in June, July, August, and 10 hours per day in September (at the same time as summer ends).

  • More than 85% of MENA land can generate Solar electricity 2012-09-19

    BAHRAIN, 2012/09/19 We often hear about the Middle East and North Africa’s (MENA) centrality in world energy markets as it is home to extra than 52 and 42 % of world reserves of oil and gas respectively. The region is as well responsible for extra than 36 and 20 % of world oil and gas production.   Nevertheless, MENA is as well the world leader in other aspects of the energy markets, namely energy use and energy intensity (i.e. energy use per $1,000 of output). Between 1981 and 2009 these grew faster in MENA than any other region. Furthermore, the gap between MENA and other regions is significant(Figure 1). This is especially true in energy intensity, which saw negative increase rates in amount regions during 1981-2009, except for MENA.
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