Featured in Turkey – 04-2014

Waiting for the spark

Middle East: In a region where the world’s tallest building towers over terrain of primordial, pristine desert, progress can be both swift and snail-paced. Solar PV has the potential to knit together an area that still pulls in many different directions, but from where, asks pv magazine, will that first spark come?
By
Ian Clover

The late afternoon tailbacks that snake along Sheikh Zayed Road through the heart of Dubai are as much a symbol of this city in the sand as the iconic Burj al Arab Hotel, the piercing Burj Khalifa skyscraper and the Palm Jumeirah – an artificial archipelago dredged from the shallow depths of the Arabian Gulf …

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