Sustainable Saudi Vision

reliance on clean energy, offsetting emissions, and protecting the environment.

Overall objectives include cutting down global methane emissions, increasing exports of blue and green hydrogen, protecting and rehabilitating coral reefs, and more.

country launched a National Renewable Energy Programme. This involves 11.8GW planned with Acwa Power by 2025 and falls within the objective to have 50% of electricity generated by renewables by 2030, the rest coming from natural gas.

by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the context of rising environmental compliance across all sectors. This includes the development of natural vegetation, and initiatives such as a reduction in emissions and a 30% increase of EVs in the city.

International Solar Alliance

In 2019, Saudi Arabia joined the International Solar Alliance, which is a treaty-based, intergovernmental organisation for countries that fall within the ‘Tropics’ category. As part of this initiative, International Solar Alliance (ISA) has proposed an agreement to facilitate the trading of solar power across borders.

Launch of CCE framework

Part of Saudi’s G20 Presidency, CCE (Circular Carbon Economy) is framed as an extension of the circular economy and adds a new category – remove – to the established principles of reduce, reuse, recycle (the 3Rs) referring to removing carbon dioxide (CO2) both at the combustion stage and directly from the atmosphere.

The solar plant Sakaka is a 300MW photovoltaic (PV) solar project that aims to generate 9.5GW of renewable energy by 2023 and 58.7GW by 2030. The Dumat Al Jandal Wind Farm is a 400MW utilityscale project that’s connected to the country’s grid and generates electricity for up to 700,000 homes.