Two- day Solar Qatar Summit Gets Underway

(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) The first day of the summit was also featured with a KAHRAMAA's presentation titled "Kahramaa towards Creative Methods to Exploit Renewable Energy Sources" by Head of Renewable Energies Technologies Saleh Al- Marri. He spoke in-depth over ongoing related projects in Qatar During his presentation, Al- Marri explained the environmental, economic, human and social benefits of solar energy projects in Qatar He said that we can use solar energy as a complementary source of energy to minimize costs, reduce gas consuming and benefit from gas global prices due to selling in the global natural gas market, diverse source of energy in country for national security and reduce the harmful effects on the environment "This market and industry are promising. We believe we will see really dramatic changes associated with technology development in the next few years This is one of the plans of the Qatar National Vision 2030 and we are also improving the source of energy in friendly and sustainable way with environment," he added in his presentation The summit, which will come to an end tomorrow, gathers up to 200 solar industry stakeholders dedicated to ensuring Qatar's sustainable future to discuss the deployment of solar energy in the region and see presentations and case studies from both regional and international thought-leaders From policy-making, strategic planning, research and development to the showcasing of major solar energy projects and innovative technologies Solar Qatar Summit 2013 (SQS) will cover the most up-to-date information within this developing market.