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Welcome to the MENA Solar Brief Newsletter - Greetings and Ramadan Kareem
August 5, 2013 - Issue 1307/1308
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. Upcoming Events:
  September 9 - 10 Sheraton Olaya, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
 September 9th - SASIA Solar Education & Training - Online: Introduction to Solar Electric Generation -
One day classroom - Technical Considerations for Commercial and Utility-Sized PV Systems
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 12th - Dubai, UAE
Solar Training and Education -Limit 25 participants
 September 10 - 2nd PV Briefing & Networking Forum Riyadh, Saudi Arabia :
"Technical Elements of the K.A.CARE CPP and Solar Energy Best Practices for Saudi Arabia". Click here to visit the event website- 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.
Conference panelists and participants from KAUST, HSBC, First Solar, SunPower , Sun & Life, Ernst & Young, Eversheds, Baker Botts, Saudi Aramco, ECRA, SEC 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,Desert Technologies, Polysilicon Technology Company, Dar Solar, Enel Green Power, Latham & Watkins, Life Energy, Celestica, GT Advanced Technologies |
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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 - Saudi Arabia "committed" to green revolution. Saudi Arabia's newfound commitment towards diversifying its energy mix away from fossil fuels is not greenwash, according to the country's solar industry association.
* Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia, UAE seek $1.5b to finance solar power plants.
Saudi Arabia, the biggest member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), and the United Arab Emirates, fourth-biggest in the group, are seeking to add 1,000 megawatts of solar capacity, enough to electrify 200,000 homes.
* UAE : Dubai investment firm buys Italian solar farm. Dubai-based energy investment company Adenium Capital has purchased a 24MW solar farm in Italy.The €52m ($69m) acquisition, in partnership with ForVEI, almost doubles the capacity of its solar portfolio, the company said in a statement
* UAE - How solar energy is shining new light on the UAE. Sometimes the solution stares us in the face, to the point where we have to wear sunglasses. I speak about solar power, of course, and the recent news that Dubai International Airport's Terminal D is going to use solar power to meet part of its energy requirements.
* Qatar - Qatar rescues Germany's Solarworld from bankruptcy. Solarworld a fallen star of Germany's solar sector, could receive a €35m capital injection from Qatar as part of efforts to save the company following a global fall in the price of solar panels.
* Turkey - Using Solar Energy Resources to Generate Electricity in Turkey. Turkey's solar radiation values are similar to Spain's and Portugal's, which have the highest solar radiation values in Europe. Compared to the rest of Europe, insolation values are higher, and conditions for solar power generation are similar to those of Spain's.
Solar Industry News - Sunny Outlook for the solar industry. Walk up and down the aisles of last week's Intersolar North America conference in San Francisco and the gist generally echoed among exhibitors, attendees, industry analysts and the media is that the future looks bright for the solar industry. In fact, according to EuPD Research, the solar market is poised to add about 3.9 GW of new solar capacity by the end of this year; in the U.S., the grid storage market could hit 4 GW by 2016.
A technology promising these benefits is luminescent solar concentration (LSC). An LSC cell has two transparent plates (in a single-layer device) sandwiching a fluorescent (luminescent) material. This acts as a waveguide that traps light rays by total internal reflection and guides them to the plate edges, where they are therefore concentrated and can be absorbed by underlying solar PV cells.
Upcoming Solar Energy Events, Exhibitions & Conferences -
November 3-5 Inventions Nanotech Middle East, Doha, Qatar
November 5-7 MENA Power 2013, Abu Dhabi , UAE
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  EU PVSEC 2013 Date: September 30 - October 4, 2013 Venue: Parc des Exposition Pairs Norde Villepinte
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MENA Solar Brief
Editor: Browning Rockwell
Email: browningr@horizoninc.com
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