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The largest solar power plant in the Middle East will be built as part of Abu Dhabi's new carbon-neutral city, it has emerged...

Masdar, the Government agency set up to develop sustainable energy projects in Abu Dhabi, is planning to construct a green desert city that will house 50,000 people and 1,500 businesses.

The city will generate energy using 10 megawatt photovoltaic solar panels, half of which will be supplied by US company First Solar, according to Reuters.

Completion of Masdar City, which has been billed as the world's first carbon-neutral, zero-waste city powered entirely by renewable energy sources, is scheduled for 2016.

Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi's Minister of Higher Education and scientific research, recently said that the emirate will proceed with several major investment projects this year.

He commented, "Abu Dhabi is going ahead with big projects in the fields of energy, infrastructure, real estate, education, health and petrochemicals

"All our projects are going on according to their previously-determined schedules and they will be complete on time."

 Source: Ready2invest