United Arab Emirates

TABLE 1. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES

	Fossil fuels			Nuclear	Renewable
	Solid	Liquid	Gas	Uranium	Hydro	Solar PV	Solar CSP	Landfill
Unit	Ton	Billion barrel	Trillion cubic metre			Installed capacity (MW)	Installed capacity (MW)	Installed capacity (MW)
Total amount in specific units	0	97.8	6.091	—	—	Sweihan Solar PV Plant, Abu Dhabi (1177 MW);	Shams 1 (100 MW)	1 MW (Al Qusais Landfill)
						Sheikh Rashid Solar Park, Dubai (413 MW); Masdar City (10 MW); Distributed Solar PV Estimated (50 MW)
Total amount in exajoules (EJ)	0	623.2	204.4	—	—	—	—	—

TABLE 2. ENERGY STATISTICS

Energy consumption	1971	1980	1990	2000	2005	2010	2015	Compound annual growth rate (2015–1971)
Total	0.04	0.23	0.66	1.04	1.1	1.89	2.22	10%
Solids	0	0	0	0	0	0.03	0.07	21%
Liquids	0.01	0.12	0.24	0.28	0.35	0.53	0.63	10%
Gases	0.03	0.08	0.37	0.62	0.56	1.02	1.12	9%
Primary electricity	0	0.02	0.05	0.13	0.19	0.3	0.4	9%
Energy production
Total	2.21	3.78	4.61	6.38	7.12	7.44	9.61	3%
Solids	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%
Liquids	2.18	3.51	3.91	4.98	5.3	5.7	7.57	3%
Gases	0.03	0.27	0.7	1.4	1.82	1.74	2.04	10%
Primary electricity	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%
Net import
Total	-2.17	-3.39	-3.4	-4.44	-4.46	-4.1	-5.56	2%
Solids	0	0	0	0	0	0.03	0.07	21%
Liquids	-2.17	-3.3	-3.28	-4.19	-3.93	-4.46	-6	2%
Gases	0	-0.09	-0.12	-0.25	-0.53	0.33	0.36	-204%

TABLE 3. ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION AND CAPACITY

									Cumulative annual growth rate
Electricity production (TWh)	1971	1980	1990	2000	2005	2010	2015	2017	1971–2000	2000–2015
Total	0.20	6.31	17.08	39.94	60.70	93.90	127.39	134.55	20.04%	8.04%
Thermal	0.20	6.31	17.08	39.94	60.70	93.90	127.07	133.85	20.04%	8.02%
Nuclear	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Solar	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.32	0.70
Coal	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Electricity consumption (TWh)	1971	1980	1990	2000	2005	2010	2015	2017	1971–2000	2000–2015
Total (TWh)	0.19	5.87	15.54	38.59	56.26	89.59	126.58	129.53	20.11%	8.24%

TABLE 4. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS

Energy related ratios	1971	1980	1990	2000	2005	2010	2015	2017	1971–2000	2000–2015
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%	(0.30%
Per population (MWh per capita)	0.81	5.63	8.35	12.23	13.70	10.83	13.83	13.78	9.83%	0.82%
Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita)	169.85	220.65	354.84	329.64	267.87	228.45	242.91	NA	2.31%	–2.01%
Electricity consumption per capita (kWh/capita)	806.80	5631.32	8 354.84	12 231.67	13 700.47	10 831.87	13 827.49	13 779.79	9.83%	0.82%
Electricity production per energy production (%)	0.03%	0.60%	1.33%	2.25%	3.07%	4.54%	4.77%	NA	15.73%	5.13%
Nuclear/total electricity (%)	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
Socio-economic parameters	1971	1980	1990	2000	2005	2010	2015	2017	1971–2000	2000–2015
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%	7.36%
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%	8.57%

TABLE 5: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31 DECEMBER 2018

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 2018
BARAKAH-1	PWR	1345	Under Construction	NAWAH	KEPCO	2012-07-19
BARAKAH-2	PWR	1345	Under Construction	NAWAH	KEPCO	2013-04-16
BARAKAH-3	PWR	1345	Under Construction	NAWAH	KEPCO	2014-09-24
BARAKAH-4	PWR	1345	Under Construction	NAWAH	KEPCO	2015-07-30

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.

TABLE 7. PLANNED NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

Reactor unit/project name	Owner	Type	Capacity (MWe)	Expected construction start year	Expected commercial year
BARAKAH 1-4	ENEC/Nawah	PWR	5600	Construction started in July 2012	Not announced