UAE ‘is an ideal place to tap solar energy’

European countries are mulling over plans to extract solar power from the Sahara desert as a source of renewable energy, leaving experts to ask why solar energy is not exploited in the Gulf, especially in power desalination plants.

The UAE has cheap land, cheap labour and construction incentives making it an ideal market for solar energy. There is more radiation here than in the Sahara desert making the Empty Quarter or surrounding desert better suited to solar energy, said Galal Osman, Vice-President of the World Wind Energy Association.
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