Construction work is set to start on the Middle East's largest solar panel manufacturing plant to be developed in Dubai, the ArabianBusiness.com reported Sunday quoting Dubai World chairman Sultan Bin Sulayem. The facility will extend over one million square feet and the first phase is expected to complete by the end of 2010, Sulayem said. The new facility that will be built in Dubai Techno Park is part of the Green Dubai initiative which aims to improve the sustainability of buildings in the emirate. “We are promoting Dubai as a tourist destination and if we want tourists to come here, we have to have clean air,” he told an audience at the start of the Green Dubai conference at the Atlantis Hotel late Friday. The plant will be built by Dubai-based Solar Technologies and aims to produce the largest solar panels in the world - measuring about 5.7 square metres, bin Sulayem said. The first phase of the factory will produce enough panels to generate about 130 megawatts of power.
