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Renewable energy in Saudi Arabia

  • Kingdom’s energy demands using renewable energy

    SAUDI ARABIA, 2013/07/20 Saudi Arabia aims to become the world’s foremost market for renewable energy with an aggressive investment budget of $109 billion. By 2032, the country strives to generate as much as a third of the Kingdom’s energy demands using renewable energy (54 GW). Following the publicity surrounding the country’s major investment drive, King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (KACARE) released a series of documents detailing the revised National Energy Plan. In addition to the 41 GW of solar power, 25 GW of CSP and 16 GW of PV, the Kingdom is aiming to generate 18 GW of nuclear energy, 3 GW of waste to energy, 1 GW of geothermal and an additional 9 GW of wind power, specifically for water desalination plants.
  • Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Saud of Saudi Arabia

    SAUDI ARABIA, 2013/01/01 Saudi Arabia is of the major oil-producing nations in the world. Despite the fact that oil has been Saudi Arabia’s cash crop for decades, the country recently admitted that it does not represent the energy source of the next. EcoWatch reports that during last week’s World Economic Symposium in Rio de Janeiro, Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Saud of Saudi Arabia said, “I would like to see Saudi Arabia using 100 % renewable energy within my lifetime.”  (He’s 67, by the way, so we’re talking about years, not decades).
  • Isofoton Saudi Arabia with INDSYS 2012-10-19

    SAUDI ARABIA, 2012/10/19 Spanish PV group Isofoton plans to build 300MW of capacity in Saudi Arabia after signing a joint venture agreement with local developer INDSYS. Isofoton and INDSYS as well plan to jointly develop “significant projects” elsewhere in the Middle East, in North Africa and India, adds the Spanish group.
  • Plans 100MW solar plant for holy city of Mecca 2012-10-19

    SAUDI ARABIA, 2012/10/19 更多     Saudi Arabia plans 100MW solar plant for holy city of Mecca 
  • 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.