Oil Giant Saudi Arabia Is Emerging as a Solar Power by Ed Ballard. Until recently, Nishant Kumar, an analyst at Rystad, didn’t think the kingdom could get close to the 50% target. But new projects keep popping up. He now thinks low-carbon energy could represent a third or more of Saudi Arabia’s power mix by 2030, up from 2% last year. That would put the kingdom in the world’s top five markets for new solar capacity over that period, Rystad forecasts. Meta ran 4,000 more ads for AI nudif...