An official gives a speech during a ground-breaking ceremony for the fourth phase of a solar panel park in the United Arab Emirates in 2018. The oil and gas-rich UAE and Saudi Arabia are both in the process of signing renewable energy deals with Central Asian nations. Photo: EPA-EFE
An official gives a speech during a ground-breaking ceremony for the fourth phase of a solar panel park in the United Arab Emirates in 2018. The oil and gas-rich UAE and Saudi Arabia are both in the process of signing renewable energy deals with Central Asian nations. Photo: EPA-EFE
Renewable energy
This Week in Asia /  Economics

UAE and Saudi Arabia invest in Central Asia renewable energy deals, with Russia’s blessing

  • Oil-rich nations signing huge green energy deals with the likes of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan in a China Belt and Road region that Moscow politically dominates
  • State-owned firms can make such investments as their governments have decided not to abandon their Russia investments or curtail relations over Ukraine, says analyst

Tom Hussain
Tom Hussain in Islamabad

Updated: 8:30am, 26 Jan, 2023

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An official gives a speech during a ground-breaking ceremony for the fourth phase of a solar panel park in the United Arab Emirates in 2018. The oil and gas-rich UAE and Saudi Arabia are both in the process of signing renewable energy deals with Central Asian nations. Photo: EPA-EFE
An official gives a speech during a ground-breaking ceremony for the fourth phase of a solar panel park in the United Arab Emirates in 2018. The oil and gas-rich UAE and Saudi Arabia are both in the process of signing renewable energy deals with Central Asian nations. Photo: EPA-EFE
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