EWA reiterates commitment to National Energy Transition Plan

EWA reiterates commitment to National Energy Transition Plan

Kamal bin Ahmed Mohammed, President of the Electricity and Water Authority (EWA), announced that Bahrain has started implementing its National Energy Transition Plan, which aims to increase renewable energy resources’ share in the Kingdom to 5% of Bahrain’s total electricity generation by 2025, until advancing further to 20% by 2035.

The president noted that as per the Ministerial Resolution 2/2017, regarding the connections of renewable energy resources to the distribution network, EWA has taken several measures, such as simplifying the applications’ connection-process and setting the procedures to facilitate the process of integrating renewable energy resources to EWA’s electricity network (through the latter issuance of Resolution 1/2019, amending Article 8, of Resolution 2/2017.