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Saudi Arabia: Location DB Profile

This profile page summarizes all known activity of the location Saudi Arabia related to Solar. This location may have appeared in articles supporting this topic, against it, or in a separate context: this biographical entry simply demarks this location as appearing in content suggesting contextual association with Solar.


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DASHBOARD

At-A-Glance Vitals

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All Media Count   21051
News Count (W/Clustered)   19570 (92.96%)
Distinct Stories   14876
Blog Count   829 (3.94%)
Tweet Count   651 (3.09%)
Shared Tweet Count   702
Links Tweeted   0
Combined Tone   2.13
Combined Polarization   6.69
Combined Activity   0.99
Combined Personalization   0.99
News Tone   2.11
Blog Tone   2.23
Tweet Tone   2.48
First Seen   3/28/2009
Last Seen   5/19/2013
News/Social Ratio  92.96%
Attention/Loyalty  1465 / 1465 days (100.00%)

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Category Breakdown
Articles mentioning this location fall into the following system categories:

Activism
8.66% (1766)
Documentaries/Movies
5.10% (1040)
Legislation
54.87% (11192)
Project
70.75% (14432)


Related Countries
The following countries occur in articles mentioning this location: (Click on any country to view its profile) [Help]


 
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Outlet Location Countries
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RELATIONSHIPS


Related People

The following names occur in articles mentioning this location:

Barack Obama   10.07% (2120)
Latin America   2.48% (522)
George W Bush   2.32% (489)
Newt Gingrich   2.29% (483)
Al Gore   2.09% (441)

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Related Organizations

The following organizations occur in articles mentioning this location:

International Energy Agency   6.22% (1309)
Renewable Energy   4.53% (954)
European Union   4.44% (934)
United Nations   3.66% (770)
World Bank   3.37% (710)

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RELATED GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES


Related Worldwide Cities

The following cities worldwide occur in articles mentioning this location:

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States   11.17% (2351)
Abu Dhabi, Abu Zâ¸Aby, United Arab Emirates   9.78% (2058)
Dubai, Dubayy, United Arab Emirates   9.77% (2057)
Riyadh, Ar Riya?, Saudi Arabia   8.61% (1813)
London, London, City Of, United Kingdom   8.57% (1804)

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Related Countries
The following countries occur in articles mentioning this location:
Saudi Arabia   11.09% (20399)
United States   11.09% (12777)
China   11.09% (6734)
United Kingdom   11.09% (5063)
Japan   11.09% (4777)

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Related Global Regions

The following regions worldwide occur in articles mentioning this location:

Makkah, Saudi Arabia   11.97% (2519)
Abu Zâ¸Aby, United Arab Emirates   9.96% (2096)
Dubayy, United Arab Emirates   9.82% (2068)
Ar Riya?, Saudi Arabia   9.18% (1932)
London, City Of, United Kingdom   8.57% (1804)

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Related US States

The following US states occur in articles mentioning this location:

New York, United States   16.17% (3403)
California, United States   15.35% (3232)
Washington, United States   14.77% (3110)
District Of Columbia, United States   14.53% (3058)
Texas, United States   11.09% (2335)

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Outlet Location Countries
This location is mentioned in articles from outlets in these countries:
United States   11.09% (8633)
Jordan   11.09% (943)
United Arab Emirates   11.09% (903)
Scotland   11.09% (722)
Canada   11.09% (692)

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TWITTER


Twitterers

The following Twitterers tweet links about this location

Carydc   0.06% (13)[Profile]
SolarEnergyTips   0.05% (10)[Profile]
enviroart   0.04% (8)[Profile]
GreenGap   0.04% (8)[Profile]
solarthermalmag   0.04% (8)[Profile]

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CONTENT


Top News Outlets

This location tends to be mentioned in articles from the following news outlets:

Menafn.Com   4.19% (882)
Arabnews.Com   2.04% (430)
Zawya.Com   1.57% (330)
Ameinfo.Com   1.48% (311)
Reuters.Com   1.16% (244)

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Top Blogs

This location tends to be mentioned in articles from the following blogs:

Solarpoweradelaide.Net   0.07% (15)
Nenmore.Blogspot.Com   0.06% (13)
Solarplaza.Com   0.06% (12)
Moleprogressive.Blogspot.Com   0.05% (10)
Solarthermalmagazine.Com   0.05% (10)

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News Articles

All 19570 news articles:

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Badr Jafar: New Energy Policies in the Middle East Must Go Hand in Hand With Subsidy Reform

...... enough to changing circumstance , slowing the economy down further classic example of the effects of subsidies to constrain the region economic potential is the role of oil in Saudi Arabia power sector In the summer months over a million barrels per day of oil is burnt in power plants to meet peak power demand because there is insufficient non-associated gas production to meet ......

(1121 words by huffingtonpost.com)
(05/19/2013)
Legislation
Project
Tone: 2.70%
Pol: 8.27%
Act: 25.50%
Per: 0.00%
Que: 3.03%
Exc: 0.00%

Stocks to Soccer Add Up for Qataris Needing $200 Billion at Home - Bloomberg

...... stadiums and a metro line before hosting the soccer World Cup the retreat might be timely While the funds bought the Gulf emirate the regional leadership role long held by Saudi Arabia and Egypt , it also turned it into the lightning rod for rebellion against new governments In recent weeks , protesters burned Qatari flags in countries whose revolts it helped fund Qatari plan ......

(1497 words by bloomberg.com)
(05/19/2013)
Legislation
Activism
Project
Tone: 1.25%
Pol: 6.52%
Act: 19.80%
Per: 0.31%
Que: 1.59%
Exc: 0.00%

Big Oil's Saudi Aramco Builds LEED Certified Homes in Riyadh | Green Prophet

...... magazine , Roger Schweyer , project designer and senior architect at the American design firm HOK insists the sites benefits extend beyond its residents , As an institution , Saudi Aramco the world largest oil production company and the project developer is interested in moving beyond the oil industry , and championing new business opportunities in the Kingdom Sustainable ......

(305 words by greenprophet.com)
(05/19/2013)
Project
Tone: 6.92%
Pol: 9.43%
Act: 19.81%
Per: 0.94%
Que: 8.33%
Exc: 0.00%

Public energy: a climate policy worth fighting for | Green Left Weekly

...... pollution rose by about a year In the most recent decade , it rose by a year In Australia , politicians still boast of tripling Australia coal exports and becoming the Saudi Arabia of gas Considering the gravity of the climate crisis , it maddening to think how relatively easy it would be to take serious climate action We'd need about million wind turbines around ......

(1737 words by greenleft.org.au)
(05/19/2013)
Legislation
Project
Tone: 1.93%
Pol: 8.68%
Act: 22.72%
Per: 1.99%
Que: 0.00%
Exc: 0.00%

Is the Middle East the Next Big Market for Solar Energy? | Wired Science | Wired.com

...... two most frequently asked questions are about performance in high-temperature and high-soiling environments If you've spent a summer day in Dubai or witnessed a sandstorm in central Saudi Arabia , you would see that these can have an impact on technical performance the primary impact of heat on photovoltaic system performance is represented by a PV module temperature coefficient , which ......

(975 words by wired.com)
(05/17/2013)
Project
Tone: 1.37%
Pol: 5.08%
Act: 19.94%
Per: 1.17%
Que: 13.64%
Exc: 0.00%


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Blog Posts

All 829 blog posts:

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real economics: Solar has definitely arrived

...... provides enormous scope for growth in the solar industry , driven by standalone economics as opposed to subsidies , which are becoming ever scarcer in an austerity-driven world As A previous Saudi oil minister once noted , the stone age didn't end for a lack of stones , and this substitutional process can be well demonstrated looking at the US energy mix over the longer term Gas ......

(625 words by real-economics.blogspot.com)
(05/16/2013)
Legislation
Tone: 3.45%
Pol: 8.78%
Act: 21.94%
Per: 0.31%
Que: 0.00%
Exc: 0.00%

. T h e L i b e r t a r i a n: In many countries Italy, Spain, Germany, Portugal and in parts of the US such as the Southwest, solar is at grid parity. That means it is as inexpensive to build a solar plant as a gas or coal one. The pace of technological innovation in the solar field has also accelerated, so that costs have started falling precipitously and efficiency is rapidly increasing. By 2015, solar panels should have fallen to 42 cents per kilowatt.

...... goes into human beings Because Of South African and Israeli demand in particular , demand for solar panels in the Middle East and Africa has risen over during the past year Saudi Arabia announced plans to save its petroleum for export by going solar at home will add a great deal to regional demand if it sticks to those plans In most countries , petroleum isn't used much for ......

(883 words by 2164th.blogspot.com)
(05/03/2013)
Project
Tone: 1.78%
Pol: 4.91%
Act: 21.40%
Per: 1.11%
Que: 2.50%
Exc: 2.50%

A Solar Mirage in the Middle East? - IEEE Spectrum

...... , the chances of the UAE meeting its percent renewables goal seem slim Even at today rsquo s peak demand , meeting that goal would require another solar plants on the scale of Shams , and the UAE rsquo s demand has been growing so dramatically in recent years that it has become a net importer of natural gas What rsquo s more , there are difficulties involved in ......

(697 words by spectrum.ieee.org)
(04/28/2013)
Project
Tone: 2.70%
Pol: 6.48%
Act: 17.95%
Per: 0.40%
Que: 7.14%
Exc: 3.57%

Qatar developing solar-powered cooling | Solar Buzz Jamaica

...... family viewed as highly progressive by Gulf standards , the fact remains that most Qataris are very conservative Most practice Wahhabism , the austere form of Islam also practiced in Saudi Arabia We will come up with a solution that will keep everyone happy , so whether it means certain zones where alcohol is permitted , or another type of arrangement , he said Around the world ......

(675 words by solarbuzzjamaica.com)
(04/19/2013)
Tone: 1.81%
Pol: 4.31%
Act: 26.01%
Per: 1.53%
Que: 4.00%
Exc: 0.00%

1.5 MW Concentrated PV Solar Demonstration Facility Commences Operation in Mildura | Electric Vehicle News

...... subject to successful operation of the Mildura Demonstration Facility and finalization of funding arrangements Construction of a MW demonstration plant at the Nofa Equestrian Resort near Riyadh , Saudi Arabia continues , and is expected to be completed in the third quarter CY This will be the first offshore demonstration facility using Solar Systems Dense Array CPV Dish ......

(340 words by electric-vehiclenews.com)
(04/18/2013)
Project
Tone: 1.74%
Pol: 3.48%
Act: 21.16%
Per: 0.58%
Que: 0.00%
Exc: 0.00%


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Tweets

All 651 tweets:
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 Tone

Engineerblogger

...How Can the #US #Solar #Industry Meet Expectations? - http://ow.ly/6QiOo...

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Tone: 0.00%
Pol: 0.00%
Act: 14.29%
Per: 7.14%
Que: 100.00%
Exc: 0.00%

waseembashiti

...Saudi Arabia Goes Solar With Its First Solar Power Plant http://j.mp/pdbDO9 #Solar #Saudiaramco #Saudiarabia...

(23 words)
(10/03/2011 at 09:52:47 am)
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Pol: 0.00%
Act: 13.04%
Per: 0.00%
Que: 0.00%
Exc: 0.00%

35degreeseast

...Saudi Arabia Goes Solar With Its First Solar Power Plant http://j.mp/pdbDO9 #Solar #Saudiaramco #Saudiarabia...

(23 words)
(10/03/2011 at 09:52:46 am)
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Tone: 0.00%
Pol: 0.00%
Act: 13.04%
Per: 0.00%
Que: 0.00%
Exc: 0.00%

greenroofsuk

...Video: Sea water solar power station first - #water #energy #Climate #Change, #Environment - http://ow.ly/6KKBY...

(18 words)
(10/02/2011 at 03:30:18 am)
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Tone: 0.00%
Pol: 0.00%
Act: 27.78%
Per: 0.00%
Que: 0.00%
Exc: 0.00%

greenroofsuk

...Video: Sea water solar power station first - #water #energy #Climate #Change, #Environment - http://ow.ly/6KKCB...

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(10/02/2011 at 05:40:02 am)
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Tone: 0.00%
Pol: 0.00%
Act: 25.00%
Per: 0.00%
Que: 0.00%
Exc: 0.00%


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