Bahrain Country Commercial Guide
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Overview

Bahrain’s Vision 2030 outlined measures to protect the natural environment, reduce carbon emissions, minimize pollution, and promote sustainable energy. Bahrain is committed to energy efficiency policies and promoting renewable energy technologies that support environmental protection and the country’s long-term climate action ambitions. Endorsed by Bahrain’s Cabinet and monitored by Bahrain’s Sustainable Energy Authority (SEA), the National Energy Efficiency Action Plan (NEEAP) and the National Renewable Energy Action Plan (NREAP) set national energy efficiency and national renewable energy 2025 targets of six and five percent, respectively, with the NREAP target increasing to 10 percent by 2035.

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Bahrain reached its six percent energy efficiency target in 2019, six years ahead of schedule. Per the Bahraini government, Bahrain’s energy efficiency will improve as government ministries implement the NEEAP, primarily through a new green building code permit for all new construction. Bahrain will have to produce 280 megawatts of electricity from renewables by 2025, increasing to 710 megawatts by 2035, to meet the country’s ambitious renewable energy targets. According to official sources, Bahrain will rely primarily on solar, wind, and waste to energy power generation to reduce carbon emissions and achieve national renewable energy targets.

Opportunities

Bahrain’s proposed renewable energy pipeline consists of solar, wind, and waste to energy technologies, with the development of carbon-neutral small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear technology over the long term. Bahrain’s key solar initiatives include: planning for a solar farm project on the Askar landfill; delivering 100 megawatts of renewable power; a 50-megawatt initiative to install solar panels on the roofs of hundreds of government-owned buildings, and the potential installation of “floating solar” technologies to be deployed for power generation in Bahrain’s territorial waters in order to address the problem of land scarcity for larger solar farms.

Other offshore renewable energy options include connecting Bahrain and its GCC neighbors through an integrated network of infrastructure facilities with renewable energy capabilities, such as causeways and railway systems.

To better manage solid waste challenges, Bahrain’s Ministry of Works is currently overseeing a project implemented by an international consultancy to analyze and determine waste materials available for recycling, conversion to agricultural products, or electricity production through incineration at the Askar landfill. Bahrain is also exploring options for international investment in plasma gasification—as process which converts waste into resalable byproducts, including hydrogen, electricity, and construction materials.

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