{"id":2862,"date":"2022-11-22T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2022\/11\/22\/uae-looks-to-solar\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:00:19","slug":"uae-looks-to-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/energy-technology-greenport\/uae-looks-to-solar\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE looks to solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The agreement between Khalifa Economic Zones Abu Dhabi &#8211; KEZAD Group, and TotalEnergies Renewables, seeks to build a solar installation across KEZAD\u2019s industrial ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis agreement is in line with our strategy to develop renewable energy and provide our partners and customers with clean, reliable and affordable energy solutions,\u201d said&nbsp;Hamady Sy, managing director, TotalEnergies Renewables Distributed Generation Middle East and Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe are pleased to partner with KEZAD and AD Ports Group as this agreement is a steppingstone for many future opportunities. As a global multi-energy company, our goal is to contribute to the development of renewables in the UAE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clean energy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>KEZAD Group\u2019s wants to produce clean energy across its sites which cover&nbsp;a total land area of 550 square kilometres including 100 square kilometres designated as Free Zones, which is home to more than 1,750 investors.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, each partner will contribute its best-in-class expertise and technologies to conduct a series of feasibility studies for distributed solar generation at KEZAD, covering economic, commercial, regulatory and technical aspects.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This agreement comes as Abu Dhabi accelerates its development of solar energy solutions to support the wider UAE net zero emissions by 2050 agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The emirate plans to install 5.6 gigawatts of solar PV capacity by 2026 and is currently developing the world\u2019s largest solar plant with a capacity of 2 gigawatts in the Al Dhafra region.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Ports Group has signed a cooperation agreement with TotalEnergies to solarise its assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[741,9,174,159,281],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-technology-greenport","tag-ad-ports","tag-ports","tag-renewables","tag-solar","tag-totalenergies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2864,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions\/2864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}