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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (218554)	3/2/2013 11:14:42 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543691

"we gradually become the American Saudi of NG and its liquid condensates. " They will be the Saudi America of the ME B4 that happens. Saudi sets out roadmap for major renewable energy programme (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has published a roadmap for its renewable energy programme, aimed at reducing the amount of oil it burns in power stations, and targets issuing final bids for the first plants within three months. The world's top oil exporter aims to install 23.9 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power capacity by 2020 and 54.1 GW by 2032, it said in the roadmap, which would make Saudi Arabia one of the world's main producers of renewable electricity. That would make theses guys the KuwaitiCanuckistaniis of the ME. What do they know they know that we don't? Sun-drenched Kuwait, a desert nation with no solar- power plants and electricity demand that’s growing about 8 percent a year, has set the most ambitious target for using renewable energy in the Gulf region. OPEC’s fifth-biggest oil producer, whose air conditioners run cheaply off state-subsidized oil-fired power plants, aims to generate 10 percent of its electricity from sustainable sources by 2020, said Eyad Ali al-Falah, assistant undersecretary for technical services at the Ministry of Electricity and Water. bloomberg.com