Yemen's electricity and energy ministry and an Indian power company formed on Saturday a joint team to study the technical abilities of China national corporation for overseas economic cooperation (CCOEC) which signed a deal to build solar power units in the country.
The team will also conduct a feasibility study on projects to generate solar power including identifying the locations where the projects will be constructed, Saba reported.
Electricity and energy minister, Saleh Sumai, met with a delegation from the Indian firm, which specializes in energy, and discussed the possibility that the company contribute to electricity projects in Yemen, it said.
Days ago, the ministry and CCOEC signed a deal to build solar power units in Yemen's capital Sanaa and the archipelago of Socotra on the Indian Ocean with a donation from the Chinese Corporation.
Two units will be built in the Matna district and Al-Sabeen Hospital, Sanaa; one with a capacity of one megawatt and the second with a half-megawatt capacity. The unit to be built on Socotra, with a capacity of one megawatt, will aim to conserve the natural environment on the archipelago.
Earlier this month, Yemen and CCOEC struck a deal to build three gas-fired power stations and a gas pipeline to feed the plants in Shabwa, Dhamar and Hodeida.
Separately, investments dropped by 7% in Yemen till the third quarter of 2012 at a time when the country is exerting major efforts and providing lures to attract investments to boost the national economy affected by the unrest.
The General Investment Authority said in a recent report the investments which were licensed by the Yemeni authorities during the past nine months reached 76 projects.
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