Gov’t to increase renewable energy contribution in 2020-2030 strategy

AMMAN — The government’s energy strategy, to be issued early next year, will include increasing the percentage of renewable energy contribution in the Kingdom’s electricity needs from 20 to 30 per cent between 2020-2030, Energy Minister Hala Zawati said on Monday.

Zawati’s remarks came during a meeting of the Parliamentary Financial Committee of the Lower House over the draft state budget law for 2020 and budgets of independent public entities, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

She said that the decision related to withholding the approvals for renewable energy projects has been taken to distribute capacity fairly. She added that these projects include those whose capacity is higher than 1 mega, which make up 66 projects out of 14,000 renewable systems already linked to the national grid.