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  • Lebanon’s energy minister proposes electricity workaround amid state paralysis

    Lebanon’s caretaker Minister of Energy and Water Dr Walid Fayad proposed on Monday a “legal, constitutional and agreeable” workaround solution to stabilise the country's electricity sector. “Today's initiative proposes a comprehensive and lawful solution to the electricity crisis,” Dr Fayad said at the press conference held at the Ministry of Water and Energy. “There is a vacuum and if it continues like this it will threaten and prevent national co-operation for the common good from taking place.”

  • Renewables Soon to Overtake Coal in Electricity Generation

    The IEA report, released since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, says that the war has led countries "to increasingly value the energy security benefits of renewable energy." Although some of the shorter term solutions may be focused by necessity on fossil or nuclear sources, the future is looking more green. An additional factor in this ongoing shift quoted in the report were the "high fossil fuel and electricity prices resulting from the global energy crisis" that have "made renewable power technologies much more economically attractive".

  • Saudi Arabia raises electricity output by 3.35% in 2021

    Saudi Arabia’s total production of electricity jumped to 358,637 gigawatts per hour by the end of 2021. This marked an increase of 11,609 gigawatts, equivalent to 3.35 percent, compared to 2020, when production was about 347,028 gigawatts, according to recent figures released by the General Authority for Statistics (GaStat). The total residential consumption of electricity accounted for about 142,484 gigawatts per hour, and this figure marked an increase of 3.5 percent, equivalent to 4825 gigawatts per hour, compared to the previous year.

  • Saudi Electricity Co. signs contracts worth $720m to implement smart grid projects 

    The Saudi Electricity Co. signed two contracts at a combined value of SR2.7 billion ($720 million) with a Chinese and a Saudi company for a project to supply and install 60,000 smart devices to the Kingdom’s electricity distribution network, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The project also involves connecting the country’s distribution network with advanced control centers over the next two years as SEC looks to automate and develop electrical networks in line with its digital transformation strategy.

  • Saudi move to export electricity and hydrogen to Europe via Greece

    They underscored the significance of cooperation between the two countries in the field of clean hydrogen, including low-carbon hydrogen, green hydrogen, and its transfer to Europe. In this context, they highlighted the importance of the memorandum of understanding signed between the two countries in the field of energy and the formation of a joint technical team to carry out the necessary studies in the field of electrical interconnection and exporting electricity to Greece, as well as exporting electricity and hydrogen to Europe through Greece.

  • Deep Data: GCC electricity and Iraq’s reliance on Iran

    The framework agreement for the GCCIA-Iraq project was signed in 2019. It involves the transmission of electricity to southern Iraq from a substation in Kuwait via power lines with a total capacity of 1.8 GW. However, experts do not foresee actual Iraqi imports of “more than 500MW, maximum 1,000 MW.”

  • Saudi Arabia, Iraq Sign Electricity Interconnection Agreement

    The electrical interconnection will link from Arar in northern Saudi Arabia to Yusufiya near Baghdad and have a capacity of 1,000 megawatts and a voltage of 400 kilovolts, with a length of 435 km. The contract includes the authority's construction of lines from its substation in Kuwait to the al-Faw station in southern Iraq to supply it with about 500 megawatts of energy from the Gulf countries. Construction work will take about 24 months with a total transmission capacity of 1800 megawatts.

  • Iraq’s Perennial Electricity Problem and Its Implications for Social Stability

    Nearly two decades after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s statues, the Iraqi government still struggles to provide its society with electricity around the clock. The Iraqi electricity sector suffered even before the 2003 invasion, but the last 19 years have seen it weakened even more due to severe corruption and gross negligence. The plans put forth by the government to tackle the lack of electricity have more often proven an easy way for officials to embezzle funds through lucrative contracts than a way to improve the lives of Iraqi citizens. As a result, instead of leveraging its own resources, Iraq has become more reliant on Iran to meet its electricity demands.

  • Ethiopia begins generating electricity from controversial Nile dam

    Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia have been negotiating for nearly a decade to reach an agreement on key outstanding issues related to the impact of the $4.6bn GERD on their water security.  Egypt's foreign ministry on Sunday accused Ethiopia of further violation of a preliminary deal signed between the three nations in 2015, prohibiting any of the parties from taking unilateral actions in the use of the river's water.

  • Modeling and Forecasting Industrial Electricity Demand for Saudi Arabia: Uncovering Regional Characteristics

    We apply structural time series modeling to annual data over the period of 1990 to 2019. In addition to estimating the size and significance of the price and income elasticities for regional industrial electricity demand, this study projects regional industrial electricity demand up to 2030.