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Qatari Solar Plans: Dark Clouds Gather
 
Qatar plans a series of GCC firsts in solar power: 10% of all power by 2018, the GCC’s biggest polysilicon plant and making Qatar a key hub for solar R&D. Unfortunately things aren’t going to plan.
 
To help diversify the economy away from hydrocarbons the state-funded Qatar Foundation set up a joint venture Qatar Solar Technologies (QSTec) to build a $1bn plant to make polysilicon. It will...