Renewable Energy Policy in an Oil-Exporting Country: The Case of the United Arab Emirates
It is unusual for a major oil-exporting country to commit to the development of renewable energy. It is even more unusual for such a country to design a policy trajectory or to formulate specific targets. This paper examines one such case, namely that of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the Gulf region of the Middle East.
UAE shares some fundamental features with other countries in the region, such as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, including a small population relative to its resource base, a reliance on foreign labor, and large-scale technology imports. However, the UAE is distinctive in one important respect: Unlike the other regional players, the leadership of its capital and largest emirate, Abu Dhabi, has begun to coordinate and define its energy policy for the twentyfirst century, including a systematic approach to establish a renewable energy sector. In this paper, we address the following question: If the UAE – specifically, Abu Dhabi – implements its plan to introduce renewable energy and begin an energy transition in the immediate future, how should we evaluate the explicit and implicit assumptions of this plan and the implications of different renewable energy trajectories? We argue that the UAE case can best be evaluated in the context of the country’s stated policy of transition toward sustainable development. But given that policy and reality seldom align, we must first understand the policy disconnects and then identify potential policy pitfalls that could seriously impede the overall objectives.
| Copyright: | © Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH | |
| Quelle: | Issue 01/2010 (Juli 2010) | |
| Seiten: | 10 | |
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| Autor: | Nazli Choucri  Daniel Goldsmith Professor Toufic Mezher | |
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