The location is not an easy place to get to. From Salalah, one will have to travel more than 150kms towards Marmul. From the highway of Marmul, one will have to drive a little farther towards the interior, in the middle of the desert where from the looks of it is nothing more but a giant space of nothing. .
Renewable energy boost Oman economic diversification
MUSCAT, 26 days ago Renewable energy projects contribute to economic diversification plans espoused by Oman at a time the country strives to regulate sources of energy, conserve the environment and limit harmful fossil fuel emissions. The sultanate, represented by the Ministry of Energy and Minerals, is devising various plans and policies with the prime aim of making optimum use of energy and realising 11% contribution to energy production from renewable energy projects in different governorates of the sultanate by 2023. This is besides providing 30% of electricity needs through renewable energy sources by 2030. The Governorate of Dhofar garners a host of wind energy projects and solar projects being undertaken by Petroleum Development Oman and Rural Areas Electricity Company (Tanweer), said an Oman News Agency report.
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Oman is drawing up plans to expand its renewable energy sector, setting a target of generating 11 per cent of its electricity from clean energy sources by 2023, the Oman News Agency reported on Wednesday.
The country, which signed the Paris climate agreement in 2016, also aims to add 30 per cent of clean energy into its power mix by 2030.
The ministry is devising various plans and policies to boost renewable energy production in the country , the report said.
“Projects of renewable energy contribute to economic diversification plans espoused by the Sultanate at a time the country strives to regulate sources of energy, conserve the environment and limit harmful fossil fuel emissions,” it added.
Oman’s electricity generation fell by 2.6% until end of November 2020
By: ONA
Muscat: Oman’s total electricity production until the end of November 2020 fell by 2.6 per cent to reach 35,540.9GW per hour compared to the same month in 2019, when the total production was 36,506.5GW per hour.
Meanwhile, water production until the end of October 2020 increased by 6.5 per cent to reach 396.83 million cubic metres compared to 372.57 million cubic metres in the same period in 2019, according to statistics released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).
The total electricity production in the governorates of Al Batinah and A’Dhahirah reached 22,251.1GW per hour until the end of November 2020, recording an average increase of 1.1 per cent over the same period in 2019, when the production was 21,998.2 GW per hour. The total electricity production in A’Sharqiyah reached 7,854.0GW per hour compared to an output of 7,787GW last year, recording a decline of 0.9