Renewable Energy Across The MENA Region

For some time now, governments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA Region) have been under pressure to diversify their energy portfolios by bringing in alternative sources of energy to supplement traditional fossil fuel power. Although renewable energy sources are an obvious means by which this diversification can be achieved, to date, the adoption of renewable energy across the MENA Region has been slow.

The reasons for this lack of progress include lack of fair and reasonable feed-in tariffs for renewable energy sources, government subsidies on fossil fuel resources creating barriers to entry, in places, a lack of necessary external investment in the sector, and a lack of urgency and impetus to implement the energy diversification programs.