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Dec 30, 2022 - How Dubai is moving to renewables



Does the world need a transition to clean energy and a shift away from fossil fuels, when even a country that literally has an abundance of oil and gas does not want to use them? It seems to us that the answer is obvious. The ambitious goal is to make Dubai the city with the lowest carbon footprint on the planet by 2050. To do this, 75% of all electricity needs will be provided by solar power plants, and the remaining 25% by other clean energy sources. To understand the scale of the project; in 2020, solar energy accounted for only 10%. One of the pillars of the strategy was Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. The phased construction of this huge solar power plant, 50 kilometers from Dubai, was divided into five phases. In the first stage in 2013, a small solar power plant with a capacity of 13 MW was erected in the desert. But the second stage in 2017, its capacity increased by 200 MW. Not so much, right? In 2020, the third stage was completed; the increase in capacity amounted to another 800 megawatts. If classical solar farms were built in the first three stages, then objects with different solar energy technologies appeared in the fourth. Another 917 megawatts.