Energy

Palestinians make epic Volvo “Split” video to highlight Gaza energy crisis [video]

You've probably seen the Volvo video where a zen-looking Jean Claude van Damme does the splits. Now in a hilarious parody from the Gaza...

GE investing $5 billion in Turkey’s wind market, with turbine factory

The environmentalists trying to protect the birds might not be happy, but as Turkey continues to be the address for investments for some of...

Experts at US-Arab Policy Conference debate Mideast’s future as global energy supplier

How relevant will OPEC be 10 years from now? Does the rapid expansion of new technologies like fracking threaten the future of eco-friendly energy...

Soaring Solar Updraft Towers Are New CSP Tech Coming to the Middle East

EnviroMission's unique solar energy generation technology is picking up steam and the Middle East will be one of the first regions to give the...

Tafila Wind Farm in Jordan

With no appreciable amounts of oil or natural gas, Jordan, like Syria is a Middle East anomaly when it comes to its fossil fuel...

Solar Energy Women Wanted East!

Women in the Middle East are being encouraged to take up a career in renewable energy, thanks to a new initiative. The Women in Solar...

Hawa Akkar Wind Farm to Illuminate 60,000 Lebanese Homes in First for Country

Lebanese renewable energy have fallen short of its ambitious goal of reaching 12 percent of Lebanon's energy needs by the year 2020. But now...

Israeli Researchers Make Oil from Greenhouse Gas

A replacement for oil has become a burning need in the 21st century. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers in Israel have invented a...

Israel’s Energy Industries Wins Power From Garbage Contract in Ghana

Who says that garbage can't be used to create energy, including electricity? The same garbage that created eyesores like the Tel Aviv Garbage Mountain, where...

Israeli Sunshine Girl Gets United Nations Prize for Jewish Heart (video)

Seeing the enormous potential for Israeli clean technologies in solar energy and water for the developing world, Sivan Yaari-Borowich started an NGO to help...

Turkish Girl “Pirate” Jailed in Russia’s Arctic Prison Over Oil

Twenty-eight Greenpeacers, mostly foreigners, and two journalists are held for six weeks now in a Russian prison: In a surprising but not unheard of...

Dubai Opens 13 MW Solar Plant, The Largest PV Plant in Mideast

In an attempt to diversify its energy balance, Dubai has just turned on a 13 MW solar energy plant. The oil wealthy nation is...

The Dam that May Damn Egypt’s Future

In a strange and surprising twist, Egypt says it will consider participating with its neighbour Ethiopia in the construction of the Renaissance Dam, a...

BrightSource Builds 121MW Ashalim Solar Thermal Plant in Israel

For business travelers and the curious who are coming to Israel, BrightSource has a pilot six-megawatt project in operation in the Rotem Industrial Park built in 2008, open to the public. A new visitor center may be built at the Ashalim plant.

13 Arab Nations Get Energy Future Mapped in Helpful New Report

There is a new report out underscoring the amount of renewable energy being developed in the Arab world with Morocco, Jordan and Egypt coming...

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