Featured in Racing towards high performance – 06-2019

Shedding light on PV in MENA

ACWA Power has an installed capacity of more than 1 GW of PV projects across MENA, Southern Africa, and Southeast Asia, and was awarded the landmark Sakaka Project – Saudi Arabia’s first utility-scale PV project – which it began to construct in November 2018. pv magazine caught up with Paddy Padmanathan, CEO of the Saudi-based energy giant to discuss the Middle East’s growing solar markets.

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pv magazine

04 Jun 2019

Paddy Padmanathan, President and CEO of ACWA Power International. | Image: ACWA Power

What obstacles have you faced in the MENA region?There is a great deal of disbelief with people still questioning the technology. People are slow in coming forward and launching projects because they’re nervous. There’s still a misunderstanding to calculating the costs and in many instances, people aren’t calculating the amount of money they’re spending on …

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