UAE to get 'world's largest solar plant'

UAE to get 'world's largest solar plant'

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French oil firm Total and Spain's Abengoa Solar will partner with Abu Dhabi's alternative energy company Masdar to build "the world's largest" concentrated solar power plant, Masdar says.

The state-owned firm said it has selected a "consortium of Total and Abengoa Solar as a partner to own, build and operate Shams 1, the world's largest concentrated solar power plant and the first of its kind in the Middle East".

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The UAE is ideal for a solar plant site, due to its desert terrain and hot, dry Middle Eastern climate.



Alternative energy is gaining a foothold in an oil-rich region. It should give the Emirates a whole lot of hard currency and investment.


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The problem with these types of systems are they take out desert eco systems.

Making a very uninhabitable place that much more uninhabitable for plants, animals and humans.

It's no different than destroying another countries natural resources to create energy.