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IN DEPTH: Middle East sees the light

The oil-rich countries of the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) have often seemed like the last places on Earth that would embrace renewables — with cheap, plentiful fossil fuels, why bother with more expensive and less predictable energy sources?

Workers examine First Solar panels at the 13MW first phase of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum PV plant in Dubai
Workers examine First Solar panels at the 13MW first phase of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum PV plant in Dubai
  • Christopher Hopson
Published 4 June 2014, 08:05Updated 27 September 2016, 06:24
Middle East & AfricaIn Depth