The photo is a 1979 joint research project with the US and Saudi Arabia, in a Saudi village. What have we done since? "But Turki doesn’t fit the stereotype, and neither does his country. Quietly, the prince is helping Saudi Arabia—the quintessential petrostate—prepare to make what could be one of the world’s biggest investments in solar power. Near Riyadh, the government is preparing to build a commercial-scale solar-panel factory. On the Persian Gulf coast, another factory is about to begin producing large quantities of polysilicon, a material used to make solar cells. And next year, the two state-owned companies that control the energy sector—Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil company, and the Saudi Electricity Company, the kingdom’s main power producer—plan to jointly break ground on about 10 solar projects around the country."
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Why the Saudis Are Going Solar
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Prince Turki bin Saud bin Mohammad Al Saud is helping to lead the kingdom’s shift to solar power. (Mohammed Al-Deghaishim)
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