{"id":77360,"date":"2018-04-03T07:23:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T14:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/oil-to-solar-saudis-push-to-be-renewable-energy-powerhouse"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:05:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:05:27","slug":"oil-to-solar-saudis-push-to-be-renewable-energy-powerhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/oil-to-solar-saudis-push-to-be-renewable-energy-powerhouse","title":{"rendered":"Oil to solar: Saudis push to be renewable energy powerhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oil-to-solar-saudis-push-to-be-renewable-energy-powerhouse.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saudi engineers whip up a simulated sandstorm to test a solar panel\u2019s durability at a research lab, the heart of the oil-rich kingdom\u2019s multibillion dollar quest to be a renewable energy powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s top exporter of crude seems an unlikely champion of clean energy, but the government lab in Al Uyayna, a sun-drenched village near Riyadh, is leading the country\u2019s efforts for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solar+power\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar power<\/a> as it seeks to diversify.<\/p>\n<p>A dazzling spotlight was shone on those ambitions last week when Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman unveiled plans to develop the globe\u2019s biggest solar <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/power\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">power<\/a> project for $200 billion in partnership with Japan\u2019s SoftBank group.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-04-oil-solar-saudis-renewable-energy.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;04-oil-solar-saudis-renewable-energy.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi engineers whip up a simulated sandstorm to test a solar panel\u2019s durability at a research lab, the heart of the oil-rich kingdom\u2019s multibillion dollar quest to be a renewable energy powerhouse. The world\u2019s top exporter of crude seems an unlikely champion of clean energy, but the government lab in Al Uyayna, a sun-drenched village [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77360","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77382,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77360\/revisions\/77382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}