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Slow progress toward a big rooftop goal

A vibrant industry across the Middle East – including manufacturers, wholesalers, and a large number of EPCs and installers – supply decarbonized electricity to meet growing air-conditioning demand, tapping the region’s abundant sunshine. However, progress toward this vision of a distributed-generation solar market segment and industry in the Gulf region has been slow, according to the president of the Middle East Solar Industry Association (MESIA), Ahmed Nada.

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Jonathan Gifford

12 Jan 2022

Image: MESIA

We’ve seen significant progress in the utility-scale market segment in the Gulf region in recent years. But it seems the rooftop segment has been slower to develop. What would you say is the current progress of distributed-generation (DG) PV in the region? You are right that the speed and deployment of solar solutions to the …

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