Energy Transitions in the Middle East

Challenges and Opportunities

Katherine Wolff, Karen E. Young, Katherine Wolff, Karen E. Young

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9780755650378
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780755650408
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Political Economy
• Index: Economics

How do Middle East energy transitions fit into international energy markets? In this book, energy analysts, geopolitical experts and specialists of political economy examine the new energy potential in the Middle East. The particular focus surrounds how the region's access to finance, combined with the new global regulations and considerations of economic development, shape the region's energy transitions overall.

The Middle East is revealed to be a key site of new energy production, sharing and transmission as well as technology innovation. At the same time, the authors examine the variables that determine the success in each country and energy source, including the advantages that hydrocarbon producers will have in renewables and transition fuels, and the risk that these might slow down the energy transition overall. In doing so, the book situates the energy transition in the Middle East in a broader context of economic development, financing models, and regulations, and explains how this context interacts with the development of new energy sources.

Energy Transitions in the Middle East is an account of the challenges Middle Eastern states will face in navigating the global energy transition, as well as their key areas of opportunity.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Introduction
• PART ONE FINANCING, REGULATION, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR THE ENERGY TRANSITION
• 1 A look back at 2020: GCC COVID-19 response, reforms, energy transition concerns and micro-competitiveness
• 2 The future of Gulf NOC–IOC partnerships
• 3 Mechanisms to finance climate investments in the Middle East and North Africa
• 4 Political priorities and economic realities: Financing the renewable energy transition in Saudi Arabia and Oman
• 5 The political dimensions of energy transition in MENA: A changing landscape at the national, regional and global levels
• PART TWO NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST
• 6 The next big thing in MENA power – grids and energy storage
• 7 Green hydrogen production in North Africa: Challenges and opportunities
• PART THREE CASE STUDIES IN THE ENERGY TRANSITION
• 8 Qatar’s LNG industry in the age of hydrocarbon markets: Instability and energy transition
• 9 Renewable energy diplomacy: The Gulf States in the Caucasus and Central Asia
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Index
• Copyright