Power consumption in Saudi Arabia hits peak level in 2018

Saudi Arabia’s power consumption has reached a new peak level of 61743 MW in 2018 amid rising temperature levels and the start of the school year across the Kingdom, Ziyad al-Shiha, chief executive officer of Saudi Electricity Co. (SEC) said in a statement.

“Power consumption has reached its highest level YTD over the last two days,” al-Shiha added.

The National Renewable Energy Program (NREP) targets 9.5 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2023 in support of the Vision 2030, with an interim target of 3.45 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2020.