Qatar Electricity and Water Co. and Qatar Solar Technologies said they signed an agreement to study developing solar power in the Persian Gulf emirate, according to a news release the companies issued today.

Qatar Electricity plans to produce 10 percent of its electricity using solar energy by 2018, the company’s General Manager Fahad Hamad Al Mohannadi told a news conference in Doha today.

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