Environment & Energy | Tuesday 3 March, 2015 12:07 am

GE Lighting announces new lines of businesses to support region’s focus on driving energy efficiency

GE Lighting (NYSE: GE) has announced its new organizational structure for the Middle East, Africa and Turkey (MEAT) region with a focus on enhanced customer service delivery and promoting sustainable lighting solutions. The new organizational structure shifts from managing geographies to focus on...

More Details

Environment & Energy | Monday 2 March, 2015 1:14 pm

Dow Chemical and NEST collaborate for Thermal Energy Storage Research at Masdar Institute

Dow, through an affiliate of The Dow Chemical Company, has announced its collaboration with Norwegian firm NEST (New Energy Storage Technology) AS on a Thermal Energy Storage (TES) pilot project in Abu Dhabi, in association with Masdar Institute of Science and Technology. The project, to be...

More Details

Environment & Energy | Saturday 28 February, 2015 10:23 am

Oil market 'may have bottomed out'

Oil prices have probably touched bottom and should recover in the second half of 2015 as the collapse in the market over the last year begins to curb production, a Reuters survey of analysts showed on Friday.Oversupply is likely to keep a lid on oil over the next few months, and prices could...

More Details

Environment & Energy | Friday 27 February, 2015 12:52 am

DEWA hosts 8th mass wedding for 37 couples

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) hosted its 8th mass wedding, known as Anwar Dubai, for its staff. The ceremony was held under the patronage and in the presence of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Minister of Finance and President of DEWA. The move is part...

More Details

Environment & Energy | Wednesday 25 February, 2015 2:44 pm

Dubai Customs and Ministry of Environment explore joint mechanism to act on seizures of CITES-listed species

Dubai Customs received at its headquarters a delegation from the UAE Ministry of Environment & Water (MOEW), to explore and determine an appropriate joint mechanism to act on seizures of species listed in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES),...

More Details

Environment & Energy | Tuesday 24 February, 2015 7:52 am

DEWA inaugurates Mai Dubai bottled drinking water company and factory

HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Minister of Finance and President of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), inaugurated the Mai Dubai bottled drinking-water company and factory in Yalayis on Al Qudra road in Dubai. The ceremony was attended by HH Sheikh Ahmed...

More Details

Environment & Energy | Sunday 22 February, 2015 10:05 am

Portucel Soporcel Group boosts growth in the Middle East with Premium products

The Portucel Soporcel group, Europe's leading manufacturer of UWF (uncoated woodfree) printing and writing paper, and Portugal's second largest exporter, selling to 127 countries, is set to take part for the third year running in Paperworld Middle East, in Dubai, from 2nd to 4th March, the largest...

More Details

Environment & Energy | Sunday 22 February, 2015 12:42 am

DEWA delegation meets major Malaysian companies and investors in Kuala Lumpur to promote WETEX 2015

A delegation from Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) visited Malaysia in response to an invitation from the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE), to enhance relationships with Malaysian companies and organisations, and promote the Water, Energy, Technology and...

More Details

Environment & Energy | Thursday 19 February, 2015 4:02 pm

King Croc and Queen Croc at Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo set to expand their family

The King Croc family at Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo is growing. The female companion of King Croc, one of the world’s largest reptiles that took residence in Dubai in June 2014, has laid 59 eggs, several of which are ready to hatch over the incubation of period of 80 days. At 80 years of age...

More Details

Environment & Energy | Thursday 19 February, 2015 12:40 am

The UAE Inaugurates Three Micro Grid Solar Plants in Fiji

H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE’s minister of foreign affairs, today inaugurated a solar photovoltaic micro grid project that brings clean energy to some of Fiji’s outer islands. Constructed by Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, the clean energy project is the...

More Details