Sharjah inaugurated its first solar power plant, SANA — an 850 sqm, 60 MW facility located next to the Sajaa Gas Plant, state news agency Wam reports. The plant is the largest in the emirate and the first to power Sharjah’s oil and gas infrastructure using renewable energy. It can supply clean electricity to around 13.8k homes annually and cut CO2 emissions by 66k tons per year.

Who’s involved: Sharjah National Oil Corporation and Emerge — a joint venture between Masdar and France’s EDF — set up the plant. Emerge will also operate and maintain the plant under a 25-year agreement. Surplus solar energy from the plant will go to the Sharjah Electricity, Water, and Gas Authority.

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Kezad to see UAE’s first lithium battery recycling plant: Abu Dhabi’s Khalifa Economic Zones (Kezad) and Singapore’s Witthal Group subsidiary Witthal Gulf Industries signed a 50-year land lease agreement to build a AED 40 mn lithium battery recycling plant in the economic zone, according to a press release. The facility, set to be the first of its kind in the Emirates, will be in Al Taweelah and will focus on producing materials like copper, black mass, and aluminum by recycling end-of-phase batteries used in manufacturing sectors including solar farms and EVs.

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