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The Middle East and Africa is set to enjoy a year-on-year PV demand increase of 170%, according to GTM Research.

UAE-based developer Enviromena is pushing its project pipeline towards 1GW.

Dubai-based industrial conglomerate Al Shirawi Group has formed a joint venture with German firm Gildemeister Energy Solutions GmbH for utility-scale solar solutions in the UAE.

Port operator DP World’s Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza), a free economic zone at the western end of Dubai, has launched the UAE’s first green storage and warehouse facilities and is set to install 88,000 PV modules across its Dubai facilities' rooftops.

The first 200MW block of the latest phase of Dubai’s Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park has been inaugurated.

After finalising plans to install a rooftop PV project atop the facility of Gulf Center for Soap & Chemical Industries (GCSCI) in Dubai, officials from the Abu Dhabi-based Enviromena Power Systems acknowledged that commercial solar might be on the verge of a boom in the UAE.

ALEC Energy, the renewable energy arm of ALEC Engineering and Contracting LLC, has signed off on a contract to develop a 6.5MW rooftop solar plant with Emaar Development for the Dubai Hills Mall project which is currently under construction.

Al Naboodah Group Enterprises (ANGE), a Dubai-based conglomerate, has partnered with Indian solar EPC and manufacturer Jakson Group in order to expand into the solar energy space.

Exceptionally low bids for power project tenders are good for business, ACWA Power CEO Paddy Padmanathan has told PV Tech.

NRGi and Better Energy have collaborated on a new PV project in Denmark that spans the area of 112 football pitches — with the installation standing as Denmark’s third largest PV park.