Middle East becomes fastest-growing renewables market outside China

In before some benighted Westerner says “they don’t care about the environment, they just want to sell more oil”. Ignoring that OPEC countries already have excess capacity and that the past and current US administrations have demanded that OPEC increases oil production.

it would build a $6bn 5 gigawatt solar plant backed with more than 19GWh of battery storage — the largest such project ever attempted. 

When it starts in two years’ time, its batteries will give the country a constant output of 1GW

For their sun rates, this is 2c/kwh "baseload" electricity for next 50 years. (excluding financing/ROI, but also inflation).

A failure of democracy is "free speech" is freedom to lie and pillage the country by those with loudest voice. These countries don't suffer from that, but also gives them more exportable oil instead of relying on it for expensive electricity production.