{"id":292678,"date":"2021-05-11T20:20:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T23:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=292678"},"modified":"2021-05-13T18:48:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T21:48:44","slug":"middle-east-increases-renewable-energy-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/middle-east-increases-renewable-energy-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle East increases renewable energy capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The Middle East saw a 5% increase in its renewable energy capacity last year, which stood at 24,224 megawatts (MW). Despite the growth, there was a slowdown in the results compared to previous years due to the COVID-19 pandemic affecting ongoing projects, according to information published in the Saudi Arabian newspaper Arab News&#8217;s website. <em>In the photo above, a solar panel plant in Saudi Arabia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2018 and 2019, the growth in local renewable energy capacity had been 13%. According to a report by the Abu Dhabi-based International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena), the goal for the region is to reach 80-gigawatt capacity by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The global agency reported that the growth of regional renewable energy is in line with the Middle East&#8217;s ambition to diversify its economy. According to Irena, the region recognizes the socio-economic benefits of renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the countries, the United Arab Emirates increased its capacity from 13 MW, in 2011, to 2,540 MW last year. Saudi Arabia&#8217;s capacity has increased from 3 MW to 413 MW.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by El\u00fasio Brasileiro<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a 5% increase in 2020, progress was below previous years, held back by the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":292662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[35003,2099,2063,10626,10012,2283,2299,27364],"class_list":{"0":"post-292678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-energia-renovavel-en","9":"tag-energy","10":"tag-middle-east","11":"tag-oriente-medio-ar","12":"tag-renewable-energy-en","13":"tag-solar-energy","14":"tag-sustainability","15":"tag-sustentabilidade-en-2"},"wps_subtitle":"Despite a 5% increase in 2020, progress was below previous years, held back by the pandemic.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}