Spurred by ambitious targets for expansion over the next 15 years and a government committed to a sustainability agenda, the solar energy sector in Dubai offers opportunities for investors and potential savings for consumers. The country’s first solar energy generation plant fed power into the grid for the first time in 2013, and the successful bidder for the second...
Although Dubai’s bright-lights, big-city image is seemingly at odds with an energy-saving agenda, a target of the Dubai Integrated Energy Strategy 2030 (DIES) is to reduce energy consumption by 30% by 2030. It may seem like an ambitious target but the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy (DSCE) believes it can be achieved if the smart use of electricity and water becomes a...
Hosting the World Expo in 2020 will give Dubai the opportunity to demonstrate its exponential growth, both in the development of sustainable energy sources and in the introduction of measures to foster smarter, more efficient use of power and water. Key performance indicators for the emirate’s energy goals can be benchmarked in the next few years against three specific...
Both power generation and much of the industrial sector in Bahrain are fuelled by natural gas, with the country producing 557.97bn standard cu feet (scf) of dry gas per annum, according to BP’s “Statistical Review of World Energy 2014”. Most of this comes from the Bahrain field, where natural gas is found associated with oil, and a small amount...
The state agency responsible for utilities, the Electricity and Water Authority (EWA), is working on a vast upgrade of the 220-KV electrical transmission network, as well as an expansion of power generation capacity. While most of the new megawatts will come from the Al Dur phase two expansion, the EWA is also developing smaller-scale solar and...
The Sitra Refinery began production in 1936, making it the Gulf’s oldest such facility, and the refinery has undergone frequent upgrades since then. Sitra produces around 260,000 barrels per day (bpd) of refined product. In 2013 the kingdom announced plans to expand the refinery, and at an estimated cost of $9bn the project will be the most...
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