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  1. International

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    Wed, 1 Jul 2009

    launched a €400bn ($560bn) initiative to build huge solar farms in Africa and the Middle East to produce energy for ..... three years to elaborate plans to create the network of solar farms and transmission networks and find the funds. Acwa and

  2. NextEra to sell four gas fired plants for $1.05bn

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    Thu, 1 Sep 2011

    divesting these gas fuelled assets, NextEra had earlier announced plans to invest up to $5.8bn in building wind and solar farms over the next three years. “While there are attractive aspects for each of these assets, they have a limited strategic

  1. Political turmoil puts vital investment on hold

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    Thu, 1 Sep 2011

    improving the region's energy security. In the long run, this could enable Europe to be supplied with energy from solar farms in the North African desert. The 220 kV Egypt-Libya interconnection was established in 1998. To the east, the Five

  2. UK plans 55 per cent cut in solar FiT

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    Mon, 31 Oct 2011

    Germany and Italy have already cut incentives to limit costs for consumers. Britain has installed more than 100,000 solar farms totalling 400 MW since the programme started in April 2010. But the average cost for an array of solar panels in the

  3. SustainX receives patent for grid storage technology

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    Mon, 24 Oct 2011

    AES Energy Storage. US-based SustainX said that the device would be particularly useful on large-scale wind and solar farms , eliminating the need for these plants to use peaker plants, which burn natural gas to generate electricity when the

  4. GE to build integrated CCGT, wind, solar power plant in Turkey

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    Wed, 1 Jun 2011

    engineering and finance companies partnered for the €400bn ($580bn) Desertec project to deliver energy to Europe from solar farms in North Africa and the Middle East. Algeria’s renewable energy programme already includes large-scale industrial

  5. UK government to review solar feed-in tariffs

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    Tue, 8 Feb 2011

    being diverted to industrial-scale solar arrays. Four solar farms have been approved by Cornwall council and three other ..... The “risk of an increasing number of large-scale solar farms ” could push this goal “off track”, added a statement

  6. MENA: The renewable heartland of the future

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    Wed, 1 Sep 2010

    and natural gas pipelines, as well as to water from the Nile. Solar Millennium hopes the project will be a model for solar farms that the Desertec group plans to one day use to supply power to much of North Africa and southern Europe. Regarding

  7. Asis-Pacific

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    Fri, 1 Apr 2011

    days. China eyes solar power as it cuts 2020 nuclear goal China is to cut its 2020 nuclear target and to build more solar farms in the wake of Japan’s nuclear crisis, reports Bloomberg. A nuclear capacity goal of 80 GW will be now be cut, a

  8. NEWS/ Middle East Update

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    Tue, 1 Sep 2009

    launched a €400bn ($560bn) initiative to build huge solar farms in Africa and the Middle East to produce energy for Europe ..... three years to elaborate plans to create the network of solar farms and transmission networks and find the funds. Funding secured