RIYADH: Three new renewable energy plants will be set up in different regions of the Kingdom as part of an initiative by the government to replace dependence on oil for energy production with atomic and renewable energy by 2032.
King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (K.A.CARE), in cooperation with other government agencies, is working on a renewable energy program for ‘Vision 2032’, which aims to replace 50 percent of Kingdom’s dependence on traditional fossil fuels with eco-friendly, atomic and renewable energies to be collected from resources which are naturally replenished on a human timescale. These sources include sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves and geothermal heat.
“These plants, each with a capacity of 50 megawatts, will be set up at Dhiba Al-Khadhra and Wa’d Al-Shimal in the northern region and at Al-Aflaj Governorate in the Riyadh region,” said a source in the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), which has carried out extensive experiments in the field of renewable energy, said on Sunday.
King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (K.A.CARE), in cooperation with other government agencies, is working on a renewable energy program for ‘Vision 2032’, which aims to replace 50 percent of Kingdom’s dependence on traditional fossil fuels with eco-friendly, atomic and renewable energies to be collected from resources which are naturally replenished on a human timescale. These sources include sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves and geothermal heat.
“These plants, each with a capacity of 50 megawatts, will be set up at Dhiba Al-Khadhra and Wa’d Al-Shimal in the northern region and at Al-Aflaj Governorate in the Riyadh region,” said a source in the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), which has carried out extensive experiments in the field of renewable energy, said on Sunday.
