Change in UAE clean energy project
By Adam Schreck |
October 11, 2010, Monday
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A US$22 billion clean-energy city being built in the desert outside Abu Dhabi will no longer aim to produce all its own power, the developer revealed yesterday following a wide-ranging review that retools some of the project's ambitions.
Plans originally called for Masdar City to become a self-contained "carbon-neutral" community of 40,000 residents and even more commuters. Cars would be banned. Waste and water would be recycled.
It is meant to be a marked environmental contrast to other cities in the United Arab Emirates, where fuel-guzzling SUVs and year-round air conditioning powered by fossil fuel are common.
The state company behind the city yesterday said the project now won't be completed until at least 2020 - four years after the original deadline - and that work could stretch until 2025.
The Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co - which goes by Masdar or "source" in Arabic - also backed away from original plans to power the city solely on power produced on site. The latest plans still call for the project to rely solely on renewable energy, however.
Chief Executive Sultan al-Jaber said Masdar is adapting its plans to account for new research and technologies as they become available.
The changes mark the biggest shift in Masdar's strategy since the project was announced in 2006.
Plans originally called for Masdar City to become a self-contained "carbon-neutral" community of 40,000 residents and even more commuters. Cars would be banned. Waste and water would be recycled.
It is meant to be a marked environmental contrast to other cities in the United Arab Emirates, where fuel-guzzling SUVs and year-round air conditioning powered by fossil fuel are common.
The state company behind the city yesterday said the project now won't be completed until at least 2020 - four years after the original deadline - and that work could stretch until 2025.
The Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co - which goes by Masdar or "source" in Arabic - also backed away from original plans to power the city solely on power produced on site. The latest plans still call for the project to rely solely on renewable energy, however.
Chief Executive Sultan al-Jaber said Masdar is adapting its plans to account for new research and technologies as they become available.
The changes mark the biggest shift in Masdar's strategy since the project was announced in 2006.
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