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The new facility will include solar power with the potential capacity of up to 5GW

UAE plans $6bn solar energy storage plant

The UAE will construct a renewable facility capable of providing energy at scale around the clock. The project – estimated to cost $6 billion – will be developed in partnership between the UAE state-owned renewables company Masdar and the Emirates Water and Electricity Company (Ewec). The new facility will include solar power with the potential […]

A solar power project at the Faihaa oil field in Basra, Iraq. The country is engaged in a programme to tackle persistent power supply failures

Acwa Power awarded 1GW solar project in Iraq

Iraq has invited Saudi Arabian utilities major Acwa Power to finalise an agreement for the construction of a 1,000 megawatt (MW) solar energy plant, local media reported. The country, Opec’s second largest oil producer, is engaged in a post-war programme to tackle a persistent power supply deficit. The plant in the Central Najaf governorate is […]

Power generating wind farm in Egypt

Masdar-backed Infinity Power considers Abu Dhabi IPO

Infinity Power, a joint venture between Egypt’s Infinity and the UAE’s Masdar, is considering listing on the Abu Dhabi stock exchange within the next three years, according to its chairman. “If we’re going to list today, our preference would be Abu Dhabi,” Mansour said. “Maybe that changes in a year or two. It depends on […]

Modon green steel

Developer Modon signs deal for UAE green steel

Abu Dhabi property company Modon is poised to be the first customer of a UAE pilot project to make sustainable steel with green hydrogen. Modon has entered a tentative agreement to purchase the more environmentally friendly construction material from Emsteel Group, which has been manufacturing it through a partnership with the Emirati renewable energy company […]

ReNew Energy Global has a clean-energy portfolio of about 16.3GW and is one of India's major independent power producers

UAE-backed group to take India’s ReNew Energy private

A consortium including UAE-based investors plans to take the $2.4 billion Indian clean energy company ReNew Energy Global private. The group, comprising Abu Dhabi Investment Authority’s subsidiary Platinum Hawk, Masdar, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Sumant Sinha, founder and chairman of ReNew, have proposed $7.07 per share. This is a premium of 11.5 percent to the stock’s last close, […]

French president Emmanuel Macron and Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Minister of Energy, attend the signing of the SAF agreement

Saudi and French companies link up for green projects

Saudi Arabia and France have signed commercial agreements to push the development of renewables and green fuel production in the kingdom. The agreements were signed at the Saudi-French Investment Forum, attended by French president Emmanuel Macron in Riyadh. Saudi Aramco, Saudi Investment Recycling Company (SIRC), a subsidiary of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), and France’s […]

Masdar's Agios Georgios wind farm in Greece. Masdar aims to achieve 100GW of global capacity by 2030

Masdar takes majority stake in Greek clean energy player

Abu Dhabi’s Masdar has acquired a majority stake in Greek clean energy company Terna Energy to propel its European expansion. The UAE renewables major purchased a 70 percent stake in the Greek company from Gek Terna and other shareholders at €20 per share, valuing Terna Energy at €3.2 billion ($3.4 billion). Following the transaction’s closing, Masdar will […]

green hydrogen

Trump’s return may alter the future of renewable energy

Adnoc’s acquisition in September of a 35 percent stake in ExxonMobil’s low-carbon hydrogen facility in Baytown, Texas, might have been a sign of things to come. The deal between the Abu Dhabi-owned oil company and the US energy major came as interest in clean hydrogen was waning in the US while rising in the Gulf. Former […]