MENA has a lot of solar energy

MENA countries (the umbrella term for Middle Eastern and North African countries) are now capable of creating solar energy 3 times more than the current world’s capability, according to report in Khaleej Times (Dubai based daily newspaper).

In the competition of creating power energies, the fast moving countries like MENA countries (such as in Arabian Peninsula and other countries like Jordan, or Lebanon) are always becoming more familiar with solar energy and green fuels. Now they are no more strangers to these prophecies of going green.

Israel is one of the leading solar development countries, and has always been saluted by many environmental campaigners. Even UN has asked Israel to increase the development of solar energy in the country. This is actual development the world wants to see.

However, the big boom that solar development sectors are missing is the under-funding for further improvement. According to Ibrahim El Hussenei, the reason behind this is due to large abundance of oil and fossil fuels. He is a partner at an energy project development company called Booz Company in London. In 2009 the representative from Booz Company participated at Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
Hussenei suggests further that the growing need of power energies of the world can be fulfilled from both the Middle East and North Africa.

Squeezing power from the Sun

According to the news report, there are two basic ways we can squeeze solar power from the Sun. The first one is from photovoltaic (PV) panels which use mirrors and lenses, and the second one is from Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) which uses same mirrors and lenses but they are used in larger solar power plants. In Israel, many companies such as Zenith Solar and Aora Solar are using such technologies. Ultimately, the solar energy technology could become very beneficial because no more we have to depend on oils and fossil fuels. Thus we can use solar energy efficiently than fossil fuels. But there are few drawbacks the MENA countries face with their solar plants in the desert are sandstorms and few other dust problems which cause a negative impact on the functioning of the solar minors and panels.

Even though political situation in MENA countries and Israel is not doing great, we positively hope that solar energy will be the major power supplier for our planet.