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Abu Dhabi’s $32 billion TAQA Adds Clean Energy Division

Abu Dhabi's 75% government-owned National Energy Company TAQA has just created its first-ever division to specialize in investing in renewable energy. The new unit, Energy Solutions, will...

Egypt Now Contracting a Whopping 1,000 MW Wind Farm!

Egypt is now close to awarding a contract to build a 1,000 megawatt wind farm, to be up and running in 2016, that it first announced last year. A wind farm this size has few equals worldwide. Egypt has some of the best wind power potential in the world, and its government is beginning to tap into this source of free fuel in earnest, since passing its plan to get 20% of its electricity from renewables by 2020, in order to stave off climate change.

Sea Water Hydro Pump from Med to Dead Sea Needs Rethink

One alternative to the Red-Dead Canal is the Med-Dead Canal hydro pump. The massive hydro pump idea has been around since the 70s and...

US Leads World in Clean Energy Investment Under Obama

It is true that 2012 may be the last year for President Obama's bold support for clean energy - because in the wake of...

Chamelic Invents Answer for Desert Solar & Dust!

One high-tech polymer start-up has developed a coating to solve the problem. The huge and visionary Desertec Industrial Initiative (Dii)plan to ship vast amounts of solar to Europe has one glaring potential weakness. Dust. Deserts have all the sun that is needed to power vast cities, and recently, the 3rd Desertec deal was signed, but they also have dust. Lots of it. And little water to clean it. Just one month's dust accumulation in desert conditions can reduce a panels output by 35%, and some even warn that water-intensive CSP is impossible for desert solar. So developing dust-resistant solar will be the next Big Thing.

Radioactive Material Was Stolen From an Egyptian Nuclear Power Plant

A search is underway to find whoever stole a safe containing radioactive material from Egypt's first nuclear power station.  While hundreds of protestors surrounded the...

China to Help Saudis With Novel Nuke Power

In the wake of a 6-day trip by China's Premier Win Jiabao to Saudi Arabia, China and Saudi Arabia have forged an alliance on...

Morocco’s Berbers Had Water Management Sorted

International water management policies in Morocco have disrupted the Berber's perfectly good and longstanding system. In 2009 I travelled to the High Atlas mountain region...

FoEME Calms Water War Rhetoric Between Palestine and Israel

News that the French Parliament accused Israel of using water "apartheid" unleashed a fury of water war rhetoric that Friends of the Earth Middle...

Terra Nex to Help Oman Build its own Solar Supply Chain

Fossil-fueled til 2004, Oman is now making bold moves into solar The Sultanate of Oman, despite its small population of under 3 million, is forming...

Hydroelectric Dam In Turkey May Cause Environmental Catastrophe In Georgia

A hydroelectric project in Turkey's northeastern Ardahan district will change the flow of the Mtkvari River, the biggest water artery in the South Caucasus....

Desertec Nation Algeria to Host Huge Solar Trade Fair from Germany

Algiers will be the place to be for utility-scale solar developers next May. The German trade fair specialists Messe and their Algerian daughter company in Algiers will hold a solar trade fair at the Palais des Expositions d'Alger from 7 to 10 May, 2012. As one of three North African desert nations now at the forefront of responsible climate legislation, through its ambitious solar plans and its participation in the visionary Desertec project, Algeria is ideally situated to host the event.

Dubai to Invest $3 Billion in 1,000 MW Solar Farm! …But Slowly

Dubai is expected to run out of oil by 2020. It will invest billions in solar instead. Dubai produces only around 100,000 barrels per day...

Will Turkey’s New Constitution Include Ecological Protections?

Turkish environmental journalist Mahmut Boynudelik has proposed a set of fundamental ecological principles to be enshrined in the country's new constitution. Last Wednesday, Turkey's Constitution...

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