Saudi Arabia is well known for it’s enormous oil reserves and the wealth that they have brought the country. However the kingdom has recently announced a $100bn investment in solar power plants to be built over the next 20 years.
The first of these projects is due to start feed electricity into the national grid by 2015 and by 2020 the Saudi’s expect to be producing over 30% of their energy needs from solar power. A combination of Solar PV plants and solar thermal plants will be used to produce the required 41,000 MW of electricity.