Global Electricity Review 2025
<p>In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking
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Saudi Arabia and Japan’s Softbank to create world’s biggest solar power project
Softbank Group has announced a $200bn (£141bn) investment to create the world's biggest solar power project in Saudi Arabia through its Vision Fund private equity arm. The Japanese conglomerate’s chief
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Saudi Arabia joins UN decade for global water security
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia has joined a UN-sponsored international decade to safeguard and improve the world’s water supplies. The “Action Water for Sustainable Development” decade was adopted by the General
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Electric dreams
OIL shaped the 20th century. In war, the French leader Georges Clemenceau said, petroleum was “as vital as blood”. In peace the oil business dominated stockmarkets, bankrolled despots and propped up the
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Chronic Diseases Take More Lives in the MENA Region than Infectious Diseases
Amsterdam – A shift has occurred in the MENA region over the past 30 years, seeing chronic diseases take more lives than their infectious counterparts. This same shift is taking place in developing
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4m trees to be planted in Saudi Arabia by 2020
JEDDAH: The Ministry of the Environment, Water and Agriculture aims to plant 4 million trees in the Kingdom by 2020, its undersecretary for environmental affairs, Osama bin Ibrahim Faqiha, told the Saudi
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Large-scale physical activity data reveal worldwide activity inequality
To be able to curb the global pandemic of physical inactivity and the associated 5.3 million deaths per year, we need to understand the basic principles that govern physical activity. However, there is
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Saudi foundation pledges $50 million to eradicate measles
NEW YORK, April 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Saudi Arabian charitable foundation said on Monday it will give $50 million to the United Nations children's agency to help eliminate measles, the largest
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Saudi Aramco, Malaysian Petronas sign historic deal
In a major move to boost cooperation in oil sector, Saudi Aramco signed an agreement with Malaysia’s national oil company Petronas here on Tuesday. The deal will allow Aramco’s equity participation in
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World’s Largest Oil Company, Saudi Aramco, Apparently Mulling $5 Billion Renewable Investment
The world’s largest oil company, Saudi Aramco, is apparently mulling over as much as $5 billion in renewable energy investments as part of plans to diversify from crude oil production, according to people
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Arid Saudi could need '$50 billion' in water investment
RIYADH: Arid Saudi Arabia could need more than $53 billion in water sector investment supported by private funds as demand grows, officials said Sunday. The world's largest oil exporter, whose petroleum