News Highlights

Thursday May 03, 2012
President Massoud Barzani hails Abu Dhabi's progress in renewable energy
His Excellency Massoud Barzani, the President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, visited Masdar, Abu Dhabi's multi-faceted renewable energy company, to receive a brief on the efforts of United Arab Emirates (UAE)and Abu Dhabi to develop renewable...
Saturday April 28, 2012
Masdar maintains commitment to sustainable energy for all
The third High Level Group meeting for the United Nation's Sustainable Energy for All initiative took place in London last week preceding the 3rd Clean Energy Ministerial. As a member of the high-level group, Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Managing...
Monday April 23, 2012
How the Middle-East Revolutions Push Renewable Energy Forward
Since December last year, a wave of demonstrations has been taking place in many parts of the Middle East. Rulers have been forced from power and regimes have been brought down. The revolutions have also caused drastic changes in the economy, not...
Tuesday April 17, 2012
Masdar Institute signs agreements with government organizations in UAE for funding renewable energy Atlas Project
Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, signed agreements with the Directorate of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Dubai Supreme Council of Energy (DSCE), and Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD),...
Sunday April 15, 2012
Schneider Electric Rolls out Regional Growth Plans for 2012
Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management, today highlighted a 12 per cent growth in new economies, as well as significant investment and expansion strategies that include the recruitment of up to 30 per cent more workforce in...
Wednesday April 11, 2012
First local electric bus ready, steering toward Gulf
Turkish bus manufacturer Otokar is now ready to commence mass production of the country's first domestically developed electric bus and has set its sights on exports to Gulf markets, following an anticipated successful sales performance at home.
Tuesday April 10, 2012
Dewa, Masdar seek to share expertise in clean and renewable energy
The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has compared notes with the Abu Dhabi champions of renewable energy, Masdar Institute, where the latter showed them how saving 15,000 tonnes of carbon equals to taking 3,300 cars off Abu Dhabi’s roads...
Thursday April 05, 2012
A greener Scotland? The SNP's promise and the minefield of delivery
At first sight, you would be forgiven for thinking that the greatest tensions in contemporary Scottish politics are those between a green-friendly centre-left and a corporatist right-wing, a lobby that is anti-green to its very core. Donald Trump's...
Thursday April 05, 2012
Butterflies, Solar Energy and Hydrogen
New solar collection devices for use in creating green fuels may be based on existing designs in nature provided by butterflies.
Sunday April 01, 2012
UK and US Delegations Visit Masdar
Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company Masdar played host to a British Parliamentary delegation and a US Congressional team on two separate occasions today.