United Arab Emirates
TABLE 1: ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES
| UAE Energy Reserves (as of 2019) | |||||||||
| Fossil Fuels | Nuclear | Renewable | |||||||
| Solid | Liquid | Gas | Uranium | Hydro | Solar PV | Solar CSP | Landfill | ||
| Unit | Ton | Billion Barrel | Trillion Cubic Meter | Installed Capacity (MW) | Installed Capacity (MW) | Installed Capacity (MW) | |||
| Total amount in specific units | 0 | 107 | 7.7 | — | — | 1875 MW | Shams 1 (100 MW) | 1 MW (Al Qusais Landfill) | |
| Total amount in exajoules (EJ) | 0 | 623.2 | 204.4 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Liquid consists of crude only. It has been converted to energy at 44.2 GJ/tonne. Natural gas has been converted to energy at 950 GJ/million cubic feet. | |||||||||
TABLE 2. ENERGY CONSUMPTION
| Final Energy consumption [PJ] | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2019 | Compound annual growth rate 2000–2019 (%) |
| Total | 967 | 1 157 | 1 907 | 2 389 | 2 647 | 5.44 |
| Coal, Lignate and Peat | 0 | 6 | 28 | 72 | 74 | |
| Oil | 301 | 395 | 547 | 634 | 739 | 4.84 |
| Natural gas | 529 | 564 | 1 026 | 1 268 | 1 379 | 5.17 |
| Bioenergy and Waste | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3.72 |
| Electricity | 136 | 191 | 305 | 414 | 453 | 6.54 |
TABLE 3. ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION
| Electricity production (GWh) | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2019 | Compound annual growth rate 2000–2019 (%) |
| Total | 39 944 | 60 698 | 93 949 | 127 365 | 138 436 | 6.76 |
| Coal, Lignate and Peat | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Oil | 1 524 | 2 024 | 2 258 | 2 471 | 581 | -4.95 |
| Natural gas | 38 420 | 58 674 | 91 674 | 124 601 | 134 074 | 6.80 |
| Bioenergy and Waste | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Hydro | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Nuclear | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wind | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Solar | 0 | 0 | 17 | 292 | 3 780 |
TABLE 4. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS
| 1971 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | Cumulative Annual Growth Rate | |||
| 1971-2000 | 2000-2015 | ||||||||||
| Energy Related Ratios | |||||||||||
| Electricity Consumption Per GDP (kWh per kUSD) | 172.73 | 134.64 | 306.42 | 369.86 | 311.52 | 309.05 | 353.63 | 338.35 | 2.66% | ||
| Per Population (MWh per Capita) | 0.81 | 5.63 | 8.35 | 12.23 | 13.70 | 10.83 | 13.83 | 13.78 | 9.83% | ||
| Energy Consumption Per Capita (GJ/Capita) | 169.85 | 220.65 | 354.84 | 329.64 | 267.87 | 228.45 | 242.91 | NA | 2.31% | ||
| Electricity Consumption per capita (kWh/capita) | 806.80 | 5631.32 | 8354.84 | 12231.67 | 13700.47 | 10831.87 | 13827.49 | 13779.79 | 9.83% | ||
| Electricity Production per Energy Production (%) | 0.03% | 0.60% | 1.33% | 2.25% | 3.07% | 4.54% | 4.77% | NA | 15.73% | ||
| Nuclear/Total Electricity (%) | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | ||
| Socio Economic Parameters | |||||||||||
| Population, total | 235,499 | 1,042,384 | 1,860,000 | 3,154,925 | 4,106,427 | 8,270,684 | 9,154,302 | 9,400,000 | 9.36% | ||
| GDP (current US$) | 1,100,000,000 | 43,598,748,449 | 50,715,000,000 | 104,337,372,362 | 180,600,000,000 | 289,880,430,197 | 357,949,199,755 | 382,830,000,000 | 17.00% | ||
TABLE 5: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31. DECEMBER 2020
| Reactor Unit | Type | Net Capacity [MW(e)] |
Status | Operator | Reactor Supplier |
Construction Date |
First Criticality Date |
First Grid Date |
Commercial Date |
Shutdown Date |
UCF for 2020 |
| BARAKAH-1 | PWR | 1345 | Operational | NAWAH | KEPCO | 7/19/2012 | 7/31/2020 | 8/19/2020 | 4/1/2021 | 0.0 | |
| BARAKAH-2 | PWR | 1345 | Under Construction | NAWAH | KEPCO | 4/16/2013 | 8/27/2021 | 9/14/2021 | |||
| BARAKAH-3 | PWR | 1345 | Under Construction | NAWAH | KEPCO | 9/24/2014 | |||||
| BARAKAH-4 | PWR | 1345 | Under Construction | NAWAH | KEPCO | 7/30/2015 |
| Data source: IAEA - Power Reactor Information System (PRIS). | |||||||||||
| Note: Table is completely generated from PRIS data to reflect the latest available information and may be more up to date than the text of the report. |