Funding Organisation: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi)
Co-operation: DLR-Institute of Solar Research, Solar Institute Jülich, University of Applied Science Aachen
Project Duration: August 2012 until January 2014
Contact: Tobias Fichter
Objectives:
The project QatDLR will define in detail the possibilities and conditions of an innovative power supply for the Arabian Peninsula. It already will perform first analyses on the social, energetic and socio-economic conditions to support specific projects or project developments of the German solar thermal industry in Qatar.
The project will support the far right conservative innovative approaches to energy and water supply in the Arabian Peninsula through the provision of key information and will reinforce the ongoing, still tentative departure towards sustainable structures. Having hardly perceived - big potentials of renewable energy in the region will be shown in detail and quantified, on the other hand, the alliance opportunities will be presented on the interaction of renewable and conventional, fossil fuels, and the integration options in the existing structures and markets will be shown and the necessary changes to the given structural conditions will be described.
Specifically, the project has the following objectives:
The proposed project is in connection with the proposed construction of a long-term cooperation with the government of Qatar, with the aim of to develop a joint research and development institution in Qatar.