Wamda

Maghreb

How is this startup bootstrapping solar and water solutions?

Alto Solution has entered the tough B2B market for energy and water products. (Image via Alto Solution) How can we continue humanity’s d...

renewables solar desalination desalination

Egypt

The solution to Cairo gridlock is already here [Video]

Smart car use in Egypt is not a fantasy, fuelled by visions of Google cars and Tesla Model 3s, it's a real possibility. Ismail...

Raye7 smart transportation Ismail Zohdy

Maghreb

Saphon: the Tunisian wind-energy revolution is official

Saphon's wind turbine: cheaper, more efficient, safer. (Image via Saphon) For the last four years, Tunisian company Saphon has...

Saphon Energy MEMakersGE wind energy

Egypt

Micro-production of micro-solar launches in Egypt

Tiba Solar CEO Ahmed Al-Abd (left) in December at his Cairo factory as the company kicked into first production. With him is Ain Al-Bee'ah...

Tiba Solar manufacturing solar

Jordan

Solutions to Jordan’s climate change challenges?

Jordan can be pretty dry. (Image via Letstravelsomewhere.com) As an arid, resource poor nation, Jordan has historically relied on foreign...

IndyACT Jordan IEEE Jordan Young Professionals Energy Master Plan

Egypt

Egypt's green building opportunity

Egypt Green Building Council (EEGBC) head Salah El-Haggar, UAE Green Buildings Council vice president Khaled Boushnaq...

green buildings DesignBuildBreathe MEMakersGE

Egypt

Egypt's first FiT payout goes to startup Cairo Solar

Hisham Tawfik's FiT cheque from North Cairo Electricity Distribution Company. (Image via Hatem Tawfik) After much skepticism about...

renewables FiT feed in tariff

Egypt

Startups urged to use Egypt's wealth of waste

Rubbish piled in the streets and beside waterways is a common sight in many of Egypt's cities and rural areas. (Image via...

PET flakes El Misbah El Mudii Tagaddod

Lebanon

An eco-friendly solution to dispose of pharmaceutical waste in Lebanon

A 'pill-board' building. (Image via Ziad Abi-Chaker) This article is a crosspost with the MIT Technology Review Arab Edition written by N...

MIT Technology Review Arab Edition cedar environmental expired medication

Regional

5 ecofriendly developments in MENA

Attention is shifting towards harnessing the powers of the environment for new energy sources, and the Middle East is securing its own...

Khalifa Al Tajer Mosque Bahrain World Trade Center The Gate

U.A.E

It’s alive! Epygen organisms alter ME oil industry

The oil game is still played very traditionally in the Middle East, but companies such as Dubai’s biotech firm Epygen Labs are slowly...

enzymes filter cake Epygen

Regional

Innovative tent for refugees harnesses renewable energy

What the tents, in use, could look like. (Images via Abeer Seikaly) Nearing the half-decade mark, the Syrian Civil War has by modest...

refugees tent abeer seikaly

Regional

Industrial Internet and energy efficiency in the Middle East

When a car’s fuel is running low, a little dial will let you know, and on the average car you can bet you’ve got about 40km at...

Energy saving Satchnet Chifco

U.A.E

Green Truck: a UAE private recycling service

The Green Truck warehouse. (Image via Green Truck) The UAE has one of the highest per capita waste generation rates in the world. Putting...

Green Truck MEMakers waste

Egypt

Building Egypt’s biogas market

Startups offering biogas or waste treatment solutions are slowly gearing up in the Middle East, but only Taqa Solutions had a reality...

Taqa Solutions Biogas MEMakers

Regional

Supercharging the new energy order [part 1]

This year the world is abuzz with the word 'batteries', as Tesla releases its wall-mounted storage device for the home and the...

cleantech Arabia Oil batteries

Regional

The future of energy is in batteries [Infographic]

This year the world is abuzz with the word 'batteries', as Tesla releases its wall-mounted storage device for the home and the...

cleantech Arabia MEMakers Oil

Maghreb

3D printing tackles plastic on the shores of Morocco

Jennifer Gadient and Fabian Wyss in front of their Ultimaker 3D printer. (Image via Aline Mayard) It’s 6pm on the beach at Taghazout, a f...

3d printing waste morocco

Regional

MENA biogas startups struggle for lift-off [Infographic]

Biogas hasn’t taken off in the Middle East yet, and the entrepreneurs driving it forward are battling both corporate rivals and a...

Taka Solutions Biogas MEMakers

Egypt

Meet the Egyptian startup working to green the Middle East's oil industry

Fifteen years ago fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, irrevocably changed the global oil and gas sector. Today, technology developed in the...

oil & gas Tanmia Petroleum Company Green Energy

Egypt

Egyptian power cuts fuel an ecommerce solution

For the majority of Egypt’s 82 million residents, 2014 will no doubt go down in history as the year of the power cut. It didn’t matter whi...

Green Scene Egypt clean tech Green Energy

Jordan

Renewable energy and gender equality tackled in Amman conference

Special guest Lina Khalifeh, founder of Shefighter, stands with CWEEL-Jordan's Suhair Al Mhairat during the 1st Anniversary Meeting....

cweel jordan cweel MEMakers

Regional

The right policy can power renewable energy startups

The Middle East renewable energy sector for startups is in its infancy, but there’s huge potential for entrepreneurs to play a role...

MEMakers KarmSolar Solar panels

Egypt

How nanotechnology can push Egypt through its energy crisis

Nanotechnology has been used in the oil and gas sector for decades, but in the last 15 years companies have been investing bigger sums...

EOR nanotechnology Future University Cairo

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