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• German energy giant to bid on Negev solar plant
  Apr 30, 2008 - Lior Baron - Globes - Tel Aviv - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News
  
  The tender to build and operate the Negev solar power station at Ashelim is drawing international alternative energy companies to Israel. Sources inform "Globes" that Germany's Solar Millennium AG (XETRA: S2M), one of the world's top three solar energy companies, plans to participate in the $650-700 million tender. Solar Millennium is considering collaborating with some of the Israeli companies already participating in the tender, and recently met representatives of Israel Corp. (TASE: ILCO) to discuss a possible joint bid in the tender.
  
  
• New report out on future energy scenarios in the GCC
  Apr 3, 2008 - BusinessIntelligence Middle East (BI-ME)
  
  UAE. With initiatives like MASDAR in Abu Dhabi and ENPARK in Dubai, the UAE is set to lead the world in future energy technologies according to a new report titled 'Future Energy Scenarios - Exploring the Energy Challenges and Opportunities in the GCC'.
  
  
• Abu Dhabi and Spanish entities combine to develop concentrating solar projects
  Mar 21, 2008 - Power News
  
  Spanish engineering group SENER and Abu Dhabi energy company MASDAR have incorporated a new company, Torresol Energy, whose mission will be to develop, build, and operate large concentrated solar power (CSP) plants worldwide.
  
  
• Low-cost Solar Thermal Plants at Heart of Algerian-German Research Push
  Mar 20, 2008 - Jan Burgermeister - renewableenergyworld.com
  
  Vienna, Austria - The development of a new generation of large-scale, low-cost solar thermal power plants is the focus of a joint research agreement signed between Algeria and Germany.
  
  
• Iceland, Abu Dhabi will cooperate in renewable energy: Grimsson
  Jan 22, 2008 -- Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  Iceland is a fundamental proof that it is possible within the lifetime of one generation to transform the energy system of our countries, said President of Iceland Olafur Ragnar Grimsson at the World Forum Energy Summit (WFES) which opened Monday at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre.
  
  
• Energy from the sun gets off the ground: After a long delay, the tender for building the Negev solar power plant will be published
  Jan 3, 2008 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Dalia Tal Globes, Tel Aviv, Israel
  
  The Ministries of Finance and National Infrastructures will publish the BOT (build, operate, transfer) tender for the Negev solar power plant at Ashelim, after years of delay. This is Israel's first tender for a solar powered plant. Many other countries already have such power stations in operation or under construction.
  
  
• World Bank mulls financing Negev solar project
  Dec 20, 2007 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Lior Baron Globes, Tel Aviv
  
  The World Bank is considering financing the proposed solar energy power station planned to be built in the Negev. A World Bank delegation may visit Israel to meet officials from the Ministries of Finance and National Infrastructures to discuss the project. The World Bank has already expressing its willingness to finance the Red-Dead Sea canal, or "Peace canal", subject to a feasibility study.
  
  
• Iran to open geothermal power plant in 2009
  Dec 18, 2007 - BBC Monitoring
  
  The head of the country's new energies [institution] has said that the construction project of the geothermal power plant in Meshkinshahr would be completed by the end of next year [21 March 2009].
  
  
• How Africa's desert sun can bring Europe power
  Dec 2, 2007 - The Observer
  
  A £5bn solar power plan, backed by a Jordanian prince, could provide the EU with a sixth of its electricity needs - and cut carbon emissions
  Europe is considering plans to spend more than £5bn on a string of giant solar power stations along the Mediterranean desert shores of northern Africa and the Middle East.
  
  
• Clean Power from Desert
  Nov 26, 2007 - The Club of Rome
  
  The Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation (TREC) is an initiative of The Club of Rome, the Hamburg Climate Protection Foundation and the National Energy Research Center of Jordan (NERC) in the field of renewable forms of energy. Since it was founded in 2003, it has developed the DESERTEC Concept for energy, water and climate security in EUrope, the Middle East and North Africa (EU-MENA), promoting cooperation between countries of the sun-belt and the technology belt. Now TREC is making this concept a reality in cooperation with people in politics, industry and the world of finance.
  
  
• Egypt signs contract for solar power plant
  Oct 21, 2007 - BBC Monitoring
  
  Cairo - Egyptian Electricity and Energy Minister Hasan Yunis attended Sunday [21 October] the signing ceremony of a contract on the implementation of a solar component in the first Egyptian solar power station.
  
  
• Arab countries urge solar future
  July 8, 2007
  
  Arab energy ministers and some EU politicians attending a high-level conference in this desert oasis town flanked by the ruins of a vast Roman city, announced support for a revolutionary renewable energy electricity supply system proposed by Germany to link both areas. The Damascus Declaration adopted here on June 24 by them as well as the several hundred participants (scientists, industrialists, civil servants) at the Fourth Middle East and North Africa Renewable Energy Conference (MENAREC4) advocated "large-scale renewable energy systems" which would permit solar electricity to the EU. All nations were invited to set national renewable energy targets, and donors were asked to massively increase related assistance.
  
  
• Saudi Arabia of Renewable Energy' Off Scotland's Coast
  Jun 23, 2007 - The Scotsman
  
  It has been described as the "greatest untapped source of energy Scotland has ever had", capable of generating enough electricity for every home and business in the country several times over.
  
  
• Iran's First Solar Power Plant to Become Operational in 2010
  April 13, 2007 - BBC Monitoring Middle East
  
  Tehran: Iran's first solar thermal electric power plant will become operational in 2010 in central province of Yazd.
  
  
• Egypt tries Concentrating Solar Power
  Feb 20, 2007 - Derek Sands - ME Times
  
  CAIRO -- Egypt may soon harness the same physics that a child uses to burn an ant with a magnifying glass, to generate electricity from the sun, a move that reflects the growth of Concentrating Solar Power technology worldwide. Plans to build a 150 megawatt (MW) combined solar- and gas-powered electric plant near Cairo are part of a larger effort by Egypt, and others in the region, to expand their use of renewable energies, including solar, wind, and nuclear power.
  
  
• Gulf to get first solar-power plant
  Feb 18. 2007 - Aljazeera.net
  
  AbuDhabi is to build a $350m solar power plant, the first of its kind in the Gulf, according to an investor in the project.
  
  http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3E33C34E-6C4E-4070-811F-304B045F5F24.htm
  
  
• A Study: Deserts offer cheap source of energy = 1/3 the price of oil
  Nov 21, 2006 - Asia Wind
  
  SAHARA sunshine could provide Europe with clean and cheap energy, according to a study for the German government. Experts said solar energy from north Africa could help to reduce emissions from European power stations by 70 per cent by 2050 as well as providing energy at a cost equivalent to a $20 barrel of oil - about a third of the current price.
  
  http://www.asiawind.com/forums/read.php?f=5&i=1076&t=1076
  
  
• Notice the sunshine in the desert
  June 21, 2006 - Sanjay suri - IPSnews
  
  A recent United Nations report suggests that the Sahara desert could capture enough solar energy to eventually supply all of the world's electricity needs. The report also points to some of the threats such as declining water resources which threaten delicate desert ecosystems.
  
  http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10710.html
  
  
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