Thursday, July 19, 2012

Saudi Arabia Looks to Secure $109 Billion to Develop its Solar Industry

Saudi Arabia Looks to Secure $109 Billion to Develop its Solar Industry

The Kingdom Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (Ka-care), is agency set up by Saudi Arabia in April 2010 in order to organise and oversee the nations renewable energy strategy. Saudi Arabia hopes to drastically cut its oil consumption, and believes its current plans will help it to save an average of 523,000 barrels a day over the next 20 years.The latest part of the plan is to secure $109 billion investment to create a solar industry that can provide a third of the Arab state’s electricity demand within 20 years.Maher al-Odan,…Read more...

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