Saudi Arabia R&D Effort in the Field of Solar Energy
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Saudi Arabia Plans to Become Solar Power Center
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Showa Shell, Saudi Aramco plan solar power project
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SOLAR ENERGY PROJECTS IN SAUDI ARABIA
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And last, but not least:
Saudi Arabia, UAE promote energy from sun and wind
It would seem unlikely that the Persian Gulf region, so commercially dependent on fossil fuel production and exportation, would lead the world’s search for the 21st Century’s energy source. However, the Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) nations—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE—are planning a multitude of projects to exploit the region’s seemingly limitless sun and wind and to pioneer efforts to limit their fossil fuel dependence.
The UAE, particularly Abu Dhabi, leads the race to strategically develop sustainable renewable energy sources—with Saudi Arabia close behind.
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Saudi Arabia’s role
After the pilot schemes to develop solar energy in the 1980s, Saudi Arabia is taking a much more active approach to solar power development.
In March 2008, Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, stated that Saudi Arabia’s strategic plan is to sharpen its solar energy expertise, essentially modeling it on the expertise that Saudi Arabia enjoys in the oil industry. Al-Naimi advised the French Newsletter Petrostrategies: “One of the research efforts that we are going to undertake is to see how we make Saudi Arabia a center for solar energy research, and hopefully over the next 30-50 years, we will be a major megawatt exporter.”18
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