{"id":2489,"date":"2018-03-28T03:01:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T07:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=ddb0823bd38bc99dabf1a5f791c72989"},"modified":"2018-03-28T03:01:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T07:01:07","slug":"softbank-saudi-arabia-announce-massive-solar-power-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/03\/28\/softbank-saudi-arabia-announce-massive-solar-power-project\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank, Saudi Arabia announce massive solar power project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO &#8212; SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Executive Masayoshi Son is announcing a $200 billion solar power project in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The project is in co-operation with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a partner in the SoftBank Vision Fund, set up in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The fund has already invested in companies in the U.S., India and Europe. The deal announced Wednesday is the first major one in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Son said the ample sunshine and land, as well as engineers and workers, make the foray into solar there lucrative.<\/p>\n<p>He said the project will create 100,000 jobs, reduce Saudi Arabia&#8217;s dependence on oil for its electricity, which it can sell internationally instead.<\/p>\n<p>The solar panels will be imported at first, but the project will later include a panel manufacturing site, according to Son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO &mdash; SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Executive Masayoshi Son is announcing a $200 billion solar power project in Saudi Arabia. The project is in co-operation with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a partner in the SoftBank Vision Fund, set up in 2016. The fund has already invested in companies in the U.S., India and Europe. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}