AKO in Menasol 2012
AKO attended Menasol 2012, the 4th North Africa & Middle East Solar Conference & Expo that took place this week in Abu Dhabi and organized by CSP Today. If you were not there, here you´ll find some of the highlights we have gathered for you.
And we start with this statement: The MENA region, Middle East and North Africa, is now welcoming CSP technology as a way to free itself from fossil fuels dependency. 
According to a study commissioned by the World Bank:“MENA’s oil-producing countries are embarking on CSP investment programs to free-up oil and gas from the power sector for higher value-added uses and exports, and in the longer term for CSP energy export”.
Nature has given this region the right elements for energy production. Up until now oil was the most important source of revenue, but this natural resource is not limitless. Each country has its own reasons to turn to solar power. South Arabia is betting on 25GW of CSP by 2032 hoping that solar energy will allow them to keep a nice oil reserve for its exportation. Jordan, on the other hand, wants to produce its own energy, from solar, to reduce oil imports.
Obviously European countries are more than glad to see this policy change happening, showing their willingness to promote this transformation to depend less on oil, for both economical and environmental reasons, with projects like DESERTEC.
In any case, CSP technology seems to be the way to go for all these countries.
What s our final conclusion? There is a long and bright future ahead of us, as the providers of AKOTRACE®, the most used Electrical Heat Tracing solution worldwide in CSP plants. And we are more than ready to be part of this transformation taking place in the MENA region.
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