Keeping pace with globalism .. Oman does its best in renewable energy projects as sustainability promotes

Ashraf AboArafe

Muscat, Private – Nowadays, the Omani government’s efforts of Oman in the implementation of energy projects, renewable, in line with global trends in this framework, and perhaps the most important of these projects that have been implemented recently – for example – Hebrew Project 2 financial value estimated B417 billion to generate 500 megawatts of renewable energy. As recently inaugurated green hydrogen project in cooperation between BP British oil company through carbon capture and storage in the Sultanate.

Although these same financial cost of the projects is high, make them surrounded by various challenges, as the existence of a workforce of local skilled can manage commensurate with Omanisation plans from the first, and the survival of these projects within the scope of the plans and programs and its failure to implement commensurate with the commercial use of residential and from the second, the lack of local specialized research centers and independent means manufactures necessary to speed up the material transformation process from conventional energy to renewable energy from the third, the lack of this include the trend in different government curricula and special and link ethical aspects, economic and social help to adopt, but these projects and the support and cooperation foreign investments and not restricted to government efforts and the local investor can transform whatever has been slow in this area, at the level of daily practices.

Besides, the talk about renewable energy by the projects and physical infrastructure, calls the modern by parallel addressing sustainability taking into account the fact that the energy sources of renewable or alternative is not of one efficient, continuous, but are in many cases subject to natural conditions of non-regular.

Sustainability Although trading and the prevalence of this term has recently dramatically, but he cares about the survival of natural resources for generations to come and maintain the one hand, and stresses, social and environmental on the other economic fields. This means that sustainability is not only an economic dimension heading for energy in general and renewable energy in particular, but contain overlapping circles, each one of which affect other.

According to the plans and programs of the United Nations, the fundamental objectives of the various sustainability programs is to reduce poverty, disease, ignorance and violence against women, minorities and other goals that go beyond just the energy side. However, the energy in this context is a fundamental pillar of the pillars of sustainability, without availability for all continuous, safe, and reliable, will break down the rest of the joints of the life Almokhtlvh.klah, the direction of the Sultanate of Oman renewable or clean energy is no longer an option can be ignored under the growing demand on the one hand, and the growing inventions of the other.