Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has commissioned 287 11kV substations in Dubai in the first half of 2022. This is part of its efforts to provide a state-of-the-art infrastructure as per the best international standards.

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) commissioned a new 400/132 kV substation in Al Qusais Industrial Area 5, and 10 new 132/11 kV substations in different areas in Dubai, during the first half of 2022.

Tunisian President Kais Saied published an amended version of a draft constitution in an attempt to ward off criticism after the original was slammed for the nearly unlimited power it gave his office. The amended draft makes changes to two articles, though it still retains a broad range of powers...

Libyans angered by rising prices, chronic power cuts and political deadlock planned further demonstrations Monday after a night of angry protests across the capital. Masked youths set alight car tires and blocked roads including a major coastal highway between central Tripoli and its western suburbs, but security forces did not...

Are China and Russia taking over the US power in the Gulf Cooperation Council region? Khaled Janahi, chairman of Vision 3, tends to disagree. “I would question the question because there are a lot of people thinking that already China and Russia are taking over. There is difference between relationship...

Lebanon's crumbling electricity sector has cost the country more than $40 billion since the end of its 1975-1990 civil war.

Saudi ACWA Power Co. has signed a power purchase agreement with Saudi Power Procurement Co. for the Layla PV Solar project worth $107 million.

India was the second-largest trading partner of the UAE in 2021 as it accounted for 9 percent of the total volume of the UAE's trade with the world, and 13 percent of the UAE's non-oil exports.

Iraq has agreed to pay $1.6 billion in debt to Iran by June 1 to secure a steady gas supply for power generation through the summer, its electricity minister said.

The world will set a new record for renewable power capacity this year led by solar energy in China and Europe, but growth could lose steam in 2023, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday. A record 295 gigawatts of new renewable power capacity was added in 2021 despite supply chain...

Tunisian President Kais Saied has announced the launch of "national dialogue" to help resolve a political crisis following his controversial power grab, but excluding critical opposition groups.

The number of coal-fired power plants in the pipeline worldwide declined in 2021, according to research released Tuesday, but the fossil fuel most responsible for global warming still generated record CO2 emissions, threatening Paris climate goals. Since the 195-nation treaty was inked in 2015, coal power capacity under construction or...

Macron is the first French president to win a second term for two decades, but Le Pen's result also marks the closest the far-right has ever come to taking power in France and has revealed a deeply divided nation.

More than a dozen Chinese coal power projects overseas were cancelled after a ban last year on funding such plants, but loopholes could allow 18 others to still go ahead, according to a study published Friday.

These solar projects in Morocco were part of a large international tender.

NEPCO Director Amjad Rawashdeh has called the linkages a model for Arab countries.

Lebanon's electricity company is charging $16 million to supply power on the day of the May 15 parliamentary polls, a sum that exceeds the overall election budget by nearly 30 percent, the interior minister said.

The online questionnaire was launched in January, more than half a year after President Kais Saied sacked the government, froze parliament and seized near-total power in a decisive blow against the country's political elite.

The UAE advanced to 15th place globally in the overall Global Soft Power Index ranking, up from last year's 17th in 2021. The index interviewed more than 100,000 people from 101 countries worldwide to assess the various axes of soft power and its positive influence.

Power has been restored at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power station, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986, the International Atomic Energy Agency said late Monday. Separately, Ukraine's state nuclear operator Energoatom accused the Russian military of detonating ammunition at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in the country's...

Saudi Arabia will grant industrial licenses to facilities operating in the renewable energy sector and power plants in order to become a regional center in the field of electricity production.

Under the agreement, a 100MW solar plant will be built in Tunisia.

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has said the production capacity of Hassyan Power Complex reached 1,200 megawatts (MW), using the Independent Power Producer (IPP) model. A further 600 MW will be added in Q4 of 2022, and an additional 600 MW will be added by Q3 of 2023. This...

The agreement signed by Energy Minister Walid Fayad with his Jordanian and Syrian counterparts is expected to give Lebanon two extra hours of mains electricity a day, doubling the supply currently provided by the cash-strapped government.

Crisis-hit Lebanon will sign a deal with Jordan next week to bring in electricity via Syria to help ease grueling power cuts, the energy minister has told AFP.

The net-zero target is only for its operations, not products.

Masdar will be joining a consortium that will develop solar photovoltaic facilities with a capacity of about 1.2 gigawatts and associated storage in Indonesia for the export of solar power to Singapore. In this connection, Masdar said, it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Singapore’s Tuas Power, France’s EDF...

Mohammad Ali Farahnakian, advisor to Iran's energy minister for international affairs, told IRNA on Sunday that given a contract among the three countries, implementation of the power network connection project will be launched following the presentation of specialized reports by these states to Iranian engineering consultants.

Renewable energy company Masdar will be developing Georgia's largest solar power plant, with a capacity of 100 megawatts (MW), jointly with Georgian Energy Development Fund (GEDF). GEDF is a joint-stock company, founded by the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development, and wholly state-owned. Georgia, which primarily relies on hydropower for...

The two companies announced on Wednesday a $3.6 billion (AED13.22 billion) strategic project to significantly decarbonise ADNOC’s offshore production operations, further strengthening their position in driving and leading sustainability efforts and supporting the UAE ‘Net-Zero by 2050 Strategic Initiative’.

Dubai reduced its carbon emissions by 33 percent in 2020, which is more than double the target of the Dubai Carbon Abatement Strategy 2021, said Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Vice Chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy. The Dubai Carbon Abatement Strategy aims to reduce carbon emissions by 16...

During 16 years in power, she navigated Germany through the 2008 financial turmoil and ensuing eurozone debt crisis, the 2015 refugee influx and then the Covid-19 pandemic.

As the UAE has mushroomed from a desert outpost to a thriving business hub, waste has multiplied. So has power use, which has soared 750 percent since 1990 according to the International Energy Agency. The wealthy UAE uses more electricity and creates more waste per head than almost any other...

The drop in the water levels of the Sirwan river, which begins in Iran and flows through the Darbandikhan dam and the Diyala to join the Tigris, has been attributed both to low levels of precipitation and the building of more dams in Iran which retain water.

Iraq is looking to establish a big solar power plant in the Najaf area that could generate 1,000 megawatts of solar power.

The project will be used to make power and desalinate water.

Lebanon's electricity grid was back online Sunday after the army supplied fuel to two key power stations that had run out, a minister said, ending almost a day of total blackout. The Deir Ammar and Zahrani plants ground to a halt Saturday, causing the state electricity network to collapse completely.

Egypt and Saudi Arabia have signed a $1.8 billion electricity interconnection project that aims to exchange some 3,000 MW during peak times.

Qatar wrapped up its first legislative election Saturday with reports of a solid turnout even though the vote is not expected to shift power away from the emir. Results are expected before 2000 GMT.

Abu Dhabi will obtain large generator step-up (GSU) transformers, protection and telecommunication systems for the Al Dhafra PV2 Solar project from Hitachi ABB Power Grids.

The conflict has ravaged electricity networks as well as oil and gas infrastructure across the country

This happened as part of a program aimed to change the attitudes of household consumers towards the proper use of energy resources.

The French firm, formerly called Total, will now build four power projects in Iraq.

The Energy Ministry could face serious problems in meeting electricity demand in winter if power plants did not get fuel

In the decade since the NATO-backed overthrow of longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi, repeated outbreaks of fighting have caused heavy damage to the power distribution network

Iraq has signed a deal with China to build a set of solar power plants that would produce 2,000 MW of clean, renewable energy for the power-starved, oil-rich country.

In order to make sure that Egyptians get an uninterrupted supply of electricity, Egypt has taken steps to strengthen power  linkage lines with neighboring countries such as Jordan, Sudan and Libya.

Al Qubaisi served as a VP at Mubadala Investment Company.

Taliban on Sunday took control of capital Kabul as Afghan forces, trained for years and equipped by the US and others at a cost of billions of dollars, melted away. President Ashraf Ghani wrote in a Facebook post that he had left the country to avoid clashes with the Taliban...

Lebanon's central bank governor has vowed not to reverse his decision to stop subsidising fuel imports, unless parliament votes to force the monetary authority to raid its compulsory foreign reserves. The country is gripped by one of the worst economic crises since the 1850s and is struggling with shortages of...