United Arab Emirates
TABLE 1: ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES
UAE Energy Reserves (as of 2022) | |||||||||
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 | 2020 |
Total | 967 | 1 157 | 1 907 | 2 389 | 2 268 |
Coal, Lignate and Peat | 0 | 6 | 28 | 72 | 89 |
Oil | 301 | 395 | 547 | 634 | 659 |
Natural gas | 529 | 564 | 1 026 | 1 268 | 1 076 |
Bioenergy and Waste | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Electricity | 136 | 191 | 305 | 414 | 442 |
TABLE 3. ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION
Electricity production (GWh) | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | Compound annual growth rate 2000–2020 (%) |
Total | 39 944 | 60 698 | 93 949 | 127 365 | 137 515 | 0.00 |
Coal, Lignate and Peat | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4.12 |
Oil | 1 524 | 2 024 | 2 258 | 2 471 | 657 | 6.31 |
Natural gas | 38 420 | 58 674 | 91 674 | 124 601 | 130 739 | 0.00 |
Bioenergy and Waste | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Hydro | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Nuclear | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 562 | 0.00 |
Wind | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
Solar | 0 | 0 | 17 | 292 | 4 556 | 0.00 |
TABLE 4. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS
Final Energy consumption [PJ] | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 2021* |
Nulcear/total electricity(%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 1.3 |
TABLE 5: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31. DECEMBER 2021
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 2021 |
BARAKAH-1 | PWR | 1417 | Operational | NAWAH | KEPCO | 7/19/2012 | 7/31/2020 | 8/19/2020 | 4/1/2021 | 86.0 | |
BARAKAH-2 | PWR | 1345 | Operational | NAWAH | KEPCO | 4/15/2013 | 8/27/2021 | 9/14/2021 | 0.0 | ||
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. |