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Welcome to the MENA Solar Brief Newsletter -
June 14, 2013 - Issue 1306
Serving the solar energy market in the GCC / MENA region.
* SASIA in the News
* Regional & Global Solar News
* Project Leads & Updates
* Solar Technology Focus
* Solar Investing & Project Finance
* Conferences & Exhibition
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SASIA in the News:
News, job postings, upcoming events, solar reports and more.  June 19 -21 Munich 2013
Booth - B.5681 The Saudi Arabian Solar Industry Association (SASIA) cordially invites you to join its exclusive Saudi VIP events
Wednesday, June 19th:
1.30pm - 6pm Global PV Markets: MENA Region (Official session Intersolar Europe Conference), ICM 14.A - click here for agenda
Throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA Region), governments have drafted national support plans designed to facilitate the sustainable deployment of solar PV applications in the coming years. Emirates Solar Industry Association (ESIA) forecasts that the annual solar market in MENA region will reach 3.5 GW by 2015 to represent 8% of total global demand. ESIA estimates that the majority of demand will originate in Turkey and Saudi Arabia, with Saudi Arabia as the regions first GW scale solar market by 2015.
SASIA delegates receive a discount of 50% on the PV Wednesday ticket - click here to register
Thursday, June 20th:
9am - 3pm | Exclusive face-to-face meetings with global corporations - SASIA Booth B.5681 & Meeting Room - B12, in Hall B1
3pm - 5pm | Intersolar guided VIP tour (PV power plants, EPCs & energy storage)
6pm - 8.30pm | Saudi VIP Reception (Invitation Only), ICM Center 1st floor, Room "Bierstuberl"
Intersolar Conference Program  Pricing OverviewConference registration
Intersolar Europe website  
Upcoming Events:
  September 9 - 10 Sheraton Olaya, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
SASIA Solar Training Course, Conference & Exhibition
in partnership with Solar Energy International & Intersolar
 September 9th - SASIA Solar Education & Training - Online: Introduction to Solar Electric Generation - (20 hours)
One day classroom - Technical Considerations for Commercial and Utility-Sized PV Systems
** Note: to participate in 1 day classroom course students must complete the online course work (20 hours)
Target Audience: This introductory training is geared toward Engineers, Government and Utility Decision Makers, PV System Integrators, Designers, Installation Specialists,
Business Owners, and Financiers (Enrollment limited to 25 attendees)
Locations:
September 9th, - Riyadh, KSA Solar Training & Eductioon - Limit 25 participants
September 11th - Dubai, UAE
Solar Training and Education -Limit 25 participants One day classroom: Technical Considerations for Commercial and Utility-Size PV Systems
 September 10 - 2nd PV Briefing & Networking Forum Saudi Arabia :
"Technical Elements of the K.A.CARE CPP and Solar Energy Best Practices for Saudi Arabia". A follow-up event to the February 19, 2013 JF4Solar Riyadh. - see event photos - Discuss barriers and opportunities for institutional financing and investment strategies for the solar PV and thermal energy program in Saudi Arabia
- Review innovative financing and investment tools for solar energy development
- Review strategies and action plans to facilitate the localization of solar PV and solar thermal value chain components, as well as necessary engineering, legal and professional services
- Discuss best practices and preliminary action plans for improved solar workforce training and development in Saudi Arabia, including higher education programs and certificate education programs
- Discuss the barriers, opportunities and potential action plans for solar manufacturing plants (components and systems outlined in the CPP) in Saudi Arabia
- Share institutional and policy experiences that support the Saudi solar PV and solar thermal energy program.
Members include: SunPower , SMA , Canadian Solar Middle East, SkyPower Global, TSMC, ERADA Advanced Projects Co. Ltd. , Soitec Solar, First Solar, Hilti, Activ Solar, Air Liquide ,Shoals Technologies Group, Eversheds, Kaneka, Empower, Amonix, KFB Group, Abengoa,
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Solar Energy News Summary:
Top Stories
* Saudi Arabia: SASIA teams up with SEI on solar training programJEDDAH - Saudi Arabia's Solar Industry Association (SASIA) has launched a vocational training program with US solar training company Solar Energy International (SEI) aimed at engineers, designers and photovoltaic decision makers in order to equip the region to make the most of its growing solar market. * Saudi Arabia: Khaled Juffali Company and Soitec Announce Saudi Aramco Chooses Soitec's Solar-Energy Technology. Partners Khaled Juffali Company (KJC), a Saudi Arabian investment company, and Soitec, a world leader in semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries, have announced that the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), a global petroleum and chemicals company owned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has decided to use Soitec's concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) technology for a 1-megawatt solar-energy pilot plant in Saudi Arabia's northwestern Tabuk region.
* Saudi Arabia: Solar power proves a win-win strategy for KSA. A slide in solar power costs and a surge in oil prices over the last few years has made solar power a win-win strategy for Saudi Arabia: saving billions of dollars of crude for export while making electricity at less than half the cost. Riyadh plans to install 41,000 megawatts (MW) of solar power over the next 20 years, but to date has built only 12 MW - or less than even Britain installed in early May. Despite year round sunshine, Gulf states have lagged far behind most of the world in solar power - so far.
* UAE : Renewable energies should drive desalination, Abu Dhabi event told. Countries in the region should consider powering desalination plants with solar and other renewable forms of energy to combat rising prices of fossil fuels and growing needs for potable water, say experts. Oil and gas are limited resources ... we have to find another solution, we have to find another source," said Dr Mohammed Dawoud, water-resources manager at the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD). * UAE - Dubai bus shelters to use solar power for cooling. Trials are underway to use solar energy to power and cool about 100 bus shelters after more than 160 air-conditioned shelters were left without power. The trials will also look into changing the current design of the stands to allow air circulation, should cooling fail, according to officials from Right Angle Media, the authorised operator of bus shelters in the city. A lack of power supply is the major cause behind non-operational shelters according to the firm. * Kuwait - Bidding opens on Kuwait first solar energy project. Kuwait invited bids on Wednesday to build a solar farm to produce 70 megawatts of electricity by 2016, the first phase of a plan to generate 2,000 megawatts from renewables in 2030, the project supervisor said. Thirty-seven consortia out of 107 prequalified to bid, said Salem al-Hajraf, head of energy research at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research. The second and third phases will produce 930 MW and 1,000 MW, respectively, when the project is completed in 2030, he said - Total sees opportunities in Qatar's solar energy development.
Global energy major Total sees prospects in Qatar's solar energy initiative as the country has set a target to meet 16% of its production from renewable energy by 2018, a senior company executive has said. According to Arnaud Chaperon, Total senior vice-president (New Energies Division), Qatar looks at a renewable energy capacity of 1,800 megawatts (MW) by 2018.
* Jordan - Jordan to build solar energy station. French firm Solar Euromed is to build a pilot solar energy station and laboratory in southern Jordan.Jordan's Higher Council for Science and Technology's National Center for Research and Development signed an agreement Sunday with Euromed to construct the facility in the Shoubak district.
* Turkey - 2013 a critical year for solar energy development. 2013 is expected to be a pivotal year for the Turkish solar industry, as the country's Energy Market Regulatory Authority gears up to distribute PV production licenses for projects larger than 1 MW. Meanwhile, cumulative capacity is expected to surpass 4 GW by 2017.
* MENA Region - Eversheds - Developing Renewable Energy Projects - A guide to achieving success in the Middle East. * Global - Solar Industry Anxious Over Defective PanelsThe solar panels covering a vast warehouse roof in the sun-soaked Inland Empire region east of Los Angeles were only two years into their expected 25-year life span when they began to fail. It was not an isolated incident. Worldwide, testing labs, developers, financiers and insurers are reporting similar problems and say the $77 billion solar industry is facing a quality crisis just as solar panels are on the verge of widespread adoption.
Solar Investing & Project Finance - Solar shares rise as Goldman Sachs upgraded a number of companies and raised its price targets, saying near-term growth and better earnings outweigh long-term risks. Analyst Brian Lee believes the sector is minimizing its risk by shifting efforts away from Europe and more toward North America and emerging markets like Japan, India, South America and the Middle Eas
Technology Focus -
The SunShot Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Program Review 2013 will be held April 23-25, 2013 near Phoenix, Arizona. The purpose of the review is for awardees to present and receive feedback on the progress of their CSP research and development efforts currently being funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, in support of the SunShot Initiative. The review will also engage external stakeholders-such as industry, utilities, regulatory agencies, financiers and other federal agencies-in the CSP technologies being developed under the SunShot Initiative.
Upcoming Solar Energy Events, Exhibitions & Conferences - 2013 Calendar:
July 8-11 Intersolar North America, San Francisco, California
July 24-26 PV Japan 2013, Tokyo, Japan
August 18-19 SolarTech MENA 2013 - Amman, Jordan
September 3-5 GulfSol 2013, Dubai , UAESeptember 9 , SASIA - SEI Solar Training - Commercial & Utility PV Systems - Riyadh September 10 Joint Forces for Solar Conference & Networking - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia September 11 SASIA - SEI Solar Training - Commercial & Utility PV Systems - Dubai September 9-11 Arabian Water & Power Forum, Dubai, UAE
November 3-5 Inventions Nanotech Middle East, Doha, Qatar
November 5-8 Intersolar India, Mumbai, India
December 1-3 Saudi Water & Power Forum, Jeddah, KSA
December 1-4 SolarTec 2013 , Cairo Egypt
2014 Calendar:
January 20-22 World Future Energy Summit , Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
February 11-13 Solar Middle East Exhibition & Conference , Dubai, U.A.E.
Date: September 3-5, 2013
Venue : Dubai International Convention Centre, Dubai, UAE
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MENA Solar Brief
Editor: Browning Rockwell
Email: browningr@horizoninc.com
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