Energy

With So Much Oil & Natural Gas, is Biofuel a Viable Mideast Fuel Option?

A prototype algae biomass farm. Will it work in the super dry Middle East? Biomass, a renewable energy source based on biological material from living...

World Bank Grants Egypt 1.2 Billion Egyptian Pounds For Wind Energy

With a little boost from the World Bank, Egypt hopes wind energy will provide 20% of energy needs by the end of the decade Although...

Ormat Geothermal Reports $1.5 Million Loss

Despite low 2nd quarter earnings, Ormat has secured $350 million in loan guarantees to develop renewable, geothermal energy plants Israeli-founded geothermal power company  Ormat Technologies...

Solar Power To The People Of Abu Dhabi

Will Abu Dhabi's citizens choose solar panels for their roofs when electricity prices go up? The residents of the United Arab Emirates capital, Abu...

Lebanese Op-Ed Calls Nuclear Energy In The Middle East A Fad

Lebanese writer says the Middle East's nuclear energy ambitions amount to a status symbol that should be replaced with decisions based on efficiency, safety,...

Spain to Provide $10 million for Solar Power Hospitals in Lebanon

A solar band-aid: Spain and the UN looks to create solar power heating, mainly water, for hospitals in Lebanon. Thanks to a contribution from...

Israeli Firm Gilatz To Build Another 2MW Solar Plant In Italy

Gilatz builds another solar plant in Italy, capitalizing on the country's hefty solar subsidies. Solar is going viral, and can be profitable too....

Masdar CEO Admits An End To Oil

Masdar's CEO acknowledges oil and gas are finite, yet the energy provider continues to exploit UAE's natural resources to fund renewable projects with the...

Givot's Premature Oil Production Near Rosh Ha'Ayin, Israel

Givot Olam Oil Exploration LP push to production without reservoir report or stable production rates. In the face of serious climate change, Israel's Petroleum Law (1952)...

Register Early For the "Smart Grids" Middle East Conference

Smart Grids are redefining the electricity future. Worldwide experts in the field will gather to share their know-how with the Middle East in Dubai...

Energy Giant BP Signs Gas Deal With Egyptian Government

Is the Mediterranean Sea fated to end up like the Gulf of Mexico? Like a giant herd of marauding elephants pounding through the forest,...

UN To Mediate A Natural Gas "Standoff" Between Israel and Lebanon Gas Fields Dispute

Fights over rights to a natural gas field between Israel and the Hezbollah, has gone to the higher powers at the UN. Israel has...

Hezbollah Interferes With Israel's Mediterranean Energy Business

Lebanon looks to lay claim to natural gas find off Israel's coast. Image of Mediterranean Sea from Beirut. Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is not...

Global Post Names Ramallah's Khaled Al Sabawi One Of World's Top Energy Entrepreneurs

Copenhagen's negotiations went up in smoke, and too many governments are seduced by the comforts of oil. Since we can't trust the good ol'...

Poor Egyptians Find Innovative Ways to Build Solar Water Heating

Hussein Farag's home made version of a solar water heater is not as sophisticated as these made in Israel, but it's a heck of...

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Canada’s healthcare became the world’s digital health laboratory. Now Europe is taking notice

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Ancient Jewish New Year for Animals revived with global campaign against factory farming

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Teen Farmerettes were Canada’s answer to Victory Gardens during wartime food shortages

It is a wake-up call to teen girls on TikTok planning their next Coachella outfit or trip to Sephora: During the Second World War, thousands of young men left family farms to enlist, but the crops still needed planting and harvesting. Ontario's government answered by recruiting high school girls, from ages 16 to 18, to spend parts of spring, summer and fall to fill in for the labor shortage. 

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From eco city experiment to global clean energy giant: How Masdar became the UAE’s renewable energy powerhouse

Masdar began as an ambitious eco city in the Abu Dhabi desert. Two decades later, it has become one of the world's largest renewable energy developers, financing billions of dollars in solar, wind and battery storage projects across the globe.
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