{"id":77220,"date":"2018-03-28T02:42:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T09:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/softbank-to-build-worlds-biggest-solar-park-in-saudi-arabia"},"modified":"2018-03-28T02:42:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T09:42:36","slug":"softbank-to-build-worlds-biggest-solar-park-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/softbank-to-build-worlds-biggest-solar-park-in-saudi-arabia","title":{"rendered":"Softbank to Build World\u2019s Biggest Solar Park in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/softbank-to-build-worlds-biggest-solar-park-in-saudi-arabia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son said he envisions the project, which runs the gamut from power generation to panel and equipment manufacturing, as a way to help wean Saudi Arabia off its dependence on oil for electricity, create as many as 100,000 jobs and shave $40 billion off power costs. The total capacity to be built under its umbrella will be 200 gigawatts by 2030, the company said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Saudi Arabia and SoftBank Group Corp. signed a memorandum of understanding to build a $200 billion solar power development that\u2019s exponentially larger than any other project.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-03-28\/saudi-arabia-softbank-ink-deal-on-200-billion-solar-project\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018&#45;03&#45;28\/s...ar-project<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son said he envisions the project, which runs the gamut from power generation to panel and equipment manufacturing, as a way to help wean Saudi Arabia off its dependence on oil for electricity, create as many as 100,000 jobs and shave $40 billion off power costs. The total capacity to be built [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}