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Electric car charging stations launched in City Centre Muscat

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Majid Al Futtaim, the leading shopping mall, communities, retail and leisure pioneer across the Middle East, Africa and Asia has brought another first for residents and tourists in Oman by introducing an Electric Vehicle charging facility at City Centre [...] 

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Multilateral Institutions Drive Growth in MENA Renewable Energy Sector

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The Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (APICORP), the multilateral development bank focused on the energy sector, today published its latest energy research report, which this month looks at the critical role of multilateral institutions in MENA’s [...] 

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Mubadala and Dubal Holding to sign 25 year deal

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Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), Mubadala and Dubal Holding are to sign an agreement to develop a state-of-the-art power block and a water desalination plant at EGA’s smelter at Jebel Ali in Dubai.

The new facilities will improve the efficiency [...] 

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Eversheds Sutherland bolsters its Energy and Infrastructure practice

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As the MENA region continues to cement its position in the global energy market, Eversheds Sutherland has announced the relocation of two senior partners to expand the Energy and Infrastructure practice in the region.

Iwan Walters and Karim Mahmud joined [...] 

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ArabiaWeather and Raymetrics SA to Revolutionize Dust Forecasting in MENA

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ArabiaWeather Inc., the largest private weather company in the Arab World and a pioneer in weather technology – has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Raymetrics SA, a global leader and manufacturer of atmospheric Light Detection [...] 

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Tips to Deep Clean Home in 7 Days

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Are you fed up of your boring looking home? Do you want to freshen it? You must need deep cleaning for home. However, when we listen to the word ‘Deep Cleaning’, a thought of scary workload and tiredness strike our brain. Well, it’s not that [...] 

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Dudgeon wind farm signs publicly rated landmark project refinancing of GBP1.4 billion

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The shareholders of the 402-megawatt (MW) Dudgeon offshore wind farm in the United Kingdom, one of the world’s largest offshore wind projects, have announced the signing and pricing of privately placed notes for the refinancing of the project’s [...] 

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60 countries encourage the use of paper products over plastic

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Studies indicate that each year, around 8 million metric tons of plastic enter the world’s oceans. In an endeavor to stop plastic pollution, governments in more than 60 countries have introduced levies and bans to combat single-use plastic waste, [...] 

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UAEU converts solar energy to electricity using innovative method

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There are a number of ways to convert solar energy to useful electricity. One such way is by using the so-called Seebeck-Peltier effect, also known as the thermoelectric effect. That is the method used by Dr Thies Thiemann and one of his students at [...] 

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