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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 21389795" data-attributes="member: 218596">Gulf state saves $192bn by making transition to clean technology and plans to invest $150bn in renewables by 2050.<img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/article_small/public/thumbnails/image/2017/03/28/11/dubai-solar.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai The United Arab Emirates forecasts that savings generated by switching half its power needs to clean energy by mid-century will outstrip the investment costs. The Gulf state plans to invest £119bn ($150bn) in renewable power to 2050, weaning the country from dependency on subsidised natural gas power  in stages, Minister of Energy Suhail Al-Mazrouei said at a conference  in Berlin. Clean energy sources will help it save £153bn ($192bn), he  said.The UAE leadership is “bullish” about achieving the goal after  realising that the nation can forgo subsidies in the switch to clean  power from liquid natural gas (LNG), Al-Mazrouei said. Sticking to the  strategy will “save the environment and at the same time save us lots of  money,” he said.As the costs for solar power fall rapidly, Gulf and Middle East  states are reevaluating their power strategies, which currently rely  subsidiaries for electricity generated with LNG. The UAE has set an  “incredibly ambitious” clean power target, starting from scratch just a  few years ago, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.In September, Chinese panel maker JinkoSolar and Japanese developer  Marubeni won a tender for a solar plant in Abu Dhabi with a record bid  of 2.42 US cents a kilowatt-hour. About £795 million ($1bn) has been  invested in utility-scale solar in the UAE since 2007.Middle East states need to break their reliance on subsidised gas  power, where inefficiencies are endemic in the Middle East, Al-Mazrouei  said.“We have so many open-cycle power plants it doesn’t make sense to  continue with them - they’ve very low efficiency,” said the former Abu  Dhabi Investment Authority executive. “The reason they are there is  because gas is subsidised.”In future, the UAE will review every proposed LNG power project as a  project that’s not subsidised, he said. The government also wants to  drop support for power tariffs, he said.“Many low hanging fruits” exist as potential savings in gas-powered  generation, transmission and demand-side management, the minister said.</blockquote>

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