Sharjah’s homegrown success Bee’ah is evolving for a new sustainable age by becoming a digitally-focused sustainability company, with Tesla trucks and an AI-powered headquarters inspired from science fiction stories using the very latest in technology. This is the main statement of Bee’ah Group CEO HE Khaled Al Huraimel, published by Arabian Business. There is an […]
Mubadala Petroleum has recorded a 25% reduction in Greenhouse Gas emissions over the last three years due to a targeted strategy that embeds its footprint as a responsible, affordable, and long-term energy provider. Publishing its 2020 Annual Sustainability Report, which details the company’s approach and impact on crucial Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) parameters across […]
Abu Dhabi National Energy Company, better known as TAQA, has announced a partnership with Emirates Steel to develop a large-scale green hydrogen project enabling the first green steel produced in the MENA region. Under the agreement, TAQA and Emirates Steel will consider utilising green hydrogen to optimise clean steel production level, Arabian Business reports. The […]
Oman has signed a land reservation agreement for a green hydrogen and ammonia project that Indian company ACME aims to set up in the Special Economic Zone at Duqm, Oman’s state news agency said on Twitter on August 23. The deal is part of a plan by Oman’s Public Authority for Special Economic Zones and […]
In the shadow of a three-walled cinder block shack housing a generator in Erbil (Iraqi Kurdistan), Ghazi Rasheed’s phone won’t stop lighting up. He fields calls from distraught and angry customers – “What happened? Why is my house dark?” – while frantically workinonto getting the generator up and running, sending electricity to his neighborhood when […]
Abu Dhabi-based clean energy major Masdar and PT PJBI, a subsidiary of Indonesia’s state-owned electricity company PT PLN, have announced the financial close on the Cirata floating photovoltaic power plant project, Arabian Business reports. Financing for the project – Indonesia’s first floating solar power plant – was arranged through Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Societe Generale, […]
Oman is the latest Gulf state to make a push for ‘clean’ hydrogen by launching a grouping of 13 public and private entities to develop a framework for its future use. The new alliance, named ‘Hy-Fly,’ includes oil and gas operators, educational and research institutes, and port operators apart from government agencies, Gulf News states. […]
German energy trading company Uniper will join Oman’s planned green hydrogen project as an off-taker and will help it secure financing, Uniper reports. Uniper will provide engineering services and negotiate an offtake agreement for green ammonia derived from the hydrogen to be produced at the plant located within the Duqm free zone. An offtake agreement […]
Let’s get squinted with Dr. Shirley Yu, a political economist and nonresident fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, point of view about Chinese renewables politics. It’s crucial for us to compare the different opinions on this hard-discussed topic. *** US President Joe Biden would like to be remembered as the Earth-saving president. But […]
Dumat Al Jandal, the Middle East’s largest wind farm and the first in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is now connected to the grid and has produced its first carbon-free megawatt-hours (MWh) of energy, WAM reports. The 400-megawatt (MW) utility-scale wind power project is being developed by a consortium led by EDF Renewables and Masdar, […]
