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Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 19, 2011: The combined value of renewable energy projects confirmed for the Project Village at the 2012 World Future Energy Summit has reached more than US$4 billion, it was announced today. Those projects are on top of the large-scale investments in renewable energy under development by Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s multi-faceted renewable energy company and host of WFES, and other companies exhibiting at the summit in January. Twenty five projects, spanning photovoltaic power, wind energy, solar thermal, waste-to-energy, concentrated solar power and other technologies, have already confirmed for the Project Village, which highlights selected projects from MENA countries, India and other international markets. Introduced at WFES 2011 as a business and networking platform for project owners, developers and solutions providers, the Project Village complements a growing pipeline of renewable energy initiatives – from the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant Shams 1, located in Abu Dhabi’s Western Region, to the 1,000-megawatt London Array wind

Staggeringly, about 1.5 billion people live without electricity. They're off the grid literally and figuratively, lacking a basic resource that's so vital to economic development and well-being. The greater a country's electricity consumption, the greater the well-being of it's people. Electricity doesn't cause well-being, of course. But it is a powerful enabler. When people have lights that allow them to study and work after dark, refrigeration to keep foods and medicine fresh, pumps and purifiers to irrigate farmland and produce safe drinking water, and cell phones and computers to connect them with commercial, educational, and health care resources, they can more fully participate in the social and economic activities that drive human development! When annual energy consumption per capita reaches just 2,500 kilowatt hours, countries move near the top of the human development index.