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.