Wind Power in Jordan --- In a country with vast areas of dessert that is rich with wind, wind farms have a great potential. First wind farm was planted in Jordan in 1996. Today we only have five farms due to the challenges and bureaucracy barriers met by investors and those interested in the clean energy. Even Solar is a rich renewable resource, which for a country that suffers with its economic, investing in these renewable energies should have come as a priority long time ago, but this was not the case.

A recent trilateral agreement between Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, bides Jordan to offer electricity to Lebanon. The question that comes to the table: How much science has been involved in the thinking, deciding and proposing of this?

Source author: Muna Zaqsaw zaqsaw.muna89@gmail.com