Enigin Update - White Paper Predicts Energy Consumption Increase for Gulf Countries
ELECTRICITY consumption amongst the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will likely increase by 2.5 percent per capita, annually until 2030.
A new white paper by Deloitte - entitled 'Energy on Demand: The Future of GCC Energy Efficiency' discusses energy and resources in the Middle East.
The white paper reveals the estimated consumption rise and concludes at this level of annual increase, GCC residents could well emerge soon as world leaders in per capita electricity consumption.
Energy and resource leader and Deloitte partner in the Middle East Kenneth McKellar said: "Given this scenario, we would expect effective demand management to play a key role in the energy balance of GCC countries, and this is already happening. As the role of demand management increases, energy efficiency policies and measures will also be inevitably streamlined and reassessed."
GCC countries put only 10.5pc of their electricity to use in industry compared with 37.7pc globally.
"GCC countries have embarked on economic diversification plans, with industrialisation as a key component of the long-term strategies they are pursuing," Mr McKellar added.
"Based on the existing electricity consumption patterns of other industrialised and industrialising countries, the success of this strategy may, alongside other measures, require a rebalancing in electricity consumption from residential to industrial sectors in the long term," he added.
Enigin Distributors across the Gulf states have exclusive access to Enigin plc's cutting edge demand side energy management and real-time monitoring system Eniscope, as well as their full EnergyMaps system, all designed to gain control of energy consumption and to allow energy to be used efficiently where and when it is needed.
Picture of Qatar by Larry Johnson reproduced under CCL.
