{"id":144,"date":"2015-12-23T10:01:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T15:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/?p=144"},"modified":"2015-12-23T10:18:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T15:18:11","slug":"dubai-mandates-rooftop-solar-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/dubai-mandates-rooftop-solar-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai mandates rooftop solar by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, recently revealed the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050, which has pretty some aggressive renewable energy goals.<\/p>\n<p>Included in the strategy are a few remarkable objectives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All rooftops in the city are to have solar panels by 2030.<\/li>\n<li>Solar energy will generate 25 percent of the city&#8217;s power by 2030.<\/li>\n<li>Solar will generate 75 percent of city power by 2050.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rooftop Solar Power To Be Mandatory In Dubai By 2030 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XFLPhBw5O6\">https:\/\/t.co\/XFLPhBw5O6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cleantech?src=hash\">#cleantech<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CleanTechnica (@cleantechnica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cleantechnica\/status\/674861900119740416\">December 10, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Start small, but go all in<\/h2>\n<p>The initial goal of the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy is to generate 7 percent of Dubai\u2019s energy from solar by 2020. But those targets quickly jump to to 25 percent by 2030 and then 75 percent by 2050.<\/p>\n<h2>Loans for investors in the clean energy sector<\/h2>\n<p>Another part of Dubai&#8217;s ambitious renewable energy strategy is providing financing options for those looking to participate in the move to clean energy sources.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy involves the establishment of the Dubai Green Fund, which will provide $27 billion worth of low-interest financing for projects involved in clean energy.<\/p>\n<span class=\"source-attribution\">Source &rarr; <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2015\/12\/10\/rooftop-solar-power-to-be-mandatory-in-dubai-by-2030\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Clean Technica<\/a><\/span><div class=\"pd-photo-att\">Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Dubai_city.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Photo<\/a> by Ahlawe \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, recently revealed the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050, which has pretty some aggressive renewable energy goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44,10,6],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar","tag-dubai","tag-renewable-energy","tag-solar-power"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}